policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid …

of moral ideal, we show that the impact of transparency is conditional on the length of the transfer chain and on the … intermediary will embezzle less. Senders react positively to a reduction of the length of the chain but negatively to transparency. …

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …

for combating corruption, especially in developing countries. …

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …