's recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a …

political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights …This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … prediction. Moreover, the effect of democratization on corruption depends on the protection of property rights and income …

This paper discusses and proposes random selection as a component in decision-making in society. Random procedures have … corruption and decrease the large expenses associated with today’s democratic election campaigns. Random mechanisms can be … applied fruitfully to a wide range of fields, including politics, the judiciary, the economy, science and the cultural sector …

considered as existing in the political and economic world. Here we refer to corruption as well as to the role of money as a … positional good. We also discuss such behaviour in the academic world, in which money plays a role as well as reputation. Thus …

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional … level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher … heterogeneity, regulation, abundance of resource and state-owned enterprises substantially breed regional corruption. Moreover …

With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …

The billionaires of the world attract significant attention from the media and the public. The popular press is full of … determinants of extraordinary wealth. Using a large data set we explore whether globalization and corruption affect extreme wealth … increase in corruption leads to an increase in the creation of super fortune. This supports the argument that in kleptocracies …

In recent years the topics of illegal activities such as corruption or tax evasion have attracted a great deal of … changing attitudes of the same cohorts over time (age effect) using data from eight Western European countries from the World …