by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey …Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample of more than 100 countries. Results show that both female managers …

work for. We reject, however, the efficient pay hypothesis as CEO pay and the demand for managers increases in Germany in …The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypothesis in …

How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …

enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that …

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 …

In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even if they have democratic … high corruption levels. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt offcials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative … positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …

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 …