corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a "third-price lottery" in …

increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to … impact of city council dissolution for mafia influence in Italy as prescribed by Decree Law 164/1991 in discouraging violence …

The role of whistle-blowing as a mechanism for deterring corruption has been conspicuously neglected in the economic … literature. This is quite surprising given the increase in legislation aimed at preventing corruption that includes whistle … deals squarely with the analysis of the role and potential impact of whistleblowing on the persistence of corruption in …

Mezzogiorno to the North of Italy, suggests that the push and pull effects of corruption stir up the endurance of the well … places endowed with more amenities. In the crossroad between these factors, this paper investigates corruption as key element …. Results suggest the dual role of push and pull mechanisms at play, as high corruption incentivizes Italian skilled mobility to …

It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is … experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices …, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different …

to explore the impact of a country’s political environment on its level of corruption. The study provides strong evidence … urbanization are associated with a lower level of public sector corruption across all 121 countries. The colonial dummies and …

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 …

The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables specific to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980 …