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

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

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 …

This paper develops a simple framework to analyze the links between corruption and the unofficial economy and their …

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 …