The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for …) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may … types of incentives are related to the likelihood of donating blood by exploiting a large sample representative of 15 …

This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that …. Under relative performance evaluation, dynamic incentives impose more restriction on rent appropriation in comparison to the …

corruption and the concealment of officials' bribes, tax havens discourage the provision of public goods and hence have also a …

We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … levels of pollution are dependent on the levels of corruption. Our results hold when we control for the effects of other …

It is hypothesized that prosecution agencies that are dependent on the executive have less incentives to prosecute … crimes committed by government members which, in turn, increases their incentives to commit such crimes. Here, this … hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was …

This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …

This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our … 175 countries from 1996 to 2010. The results show that democratic elections only work in controlling corruption, if there …

perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption …/or have fewer competitors have more political influence, perceive corruption to be less of a problem and pay bribes less often …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …