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 …

public corruption to explain the significant cause of cross-country variation in immunization progress. We suggest that … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …

corruption, the features of electoral cycles. The paper discusses both theory and evidence, and concludes with some speculations …

This paper introduces harassment in a model of bribery and corruption. We characterize the harassment equilibrium and …

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …

Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over … proxy for the size of the economy. Results suggest that the average size of the shadow economy of these 158 countries over …

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

institutions by strengthening the rule of law or regulatory quality bear greater results. Thus, when it comes to corruption control …Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …

economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies …We develop a model where firms profit from coercing workers into employment under conditions violating national law and … may be necessary to move the economy out of this equilibrium. Moreover, we show that trade bans that are effective in …

Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …