deontological moral reminder ("corruption is immoral") leads to a significant reduction in accepting bribes. A consequentialist …

identical public good, but only one of them offers opportunities for corruption. Our theoretical predictions relate occupation … the private sector. On average, corruption increases the size of the public sector, although the public output received by … society is identical in both public sector jobs. …

Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption …-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that … corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups (characterized by corruption) to strike deals with domestic and international …

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 …

present a model, a laboratory experiment, and a simple cross-country regression supporting this view. We model an economy with …

This paper develops a simple framework to analyze the links between corruption and the unofficial economy and their … implications for the official economy. In a model of self-selection with heterogeneous entrepreneurs, we show that the … entrepreneurs option to flee to the underground economy constrains a corrupt official s ability to introduce distortions to the …

hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002 - 2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15 - 64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …