gazette, is the most read Spanish-language newspaper in the world. We find that a spike of negative crime news increases …

hardly adapt their expectations to relevant publicity. On the contrary, those who do not often read a newspaper have a …

likely to be successful, we construct proxies for a number of demographic variables in the US and for corruption across … also replicate results from two separate published papers establishing the correlates of corruption at both the state and … country level. Finally, we construct the first index of corruption in US cities and study its correlates. -- Internet …

corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model … which introduces taxes into Foellmi and Oechslin’s (2007) general equilibrium model of non-collusive corruption. In this … model perceived corruption influences people's preferences for redistribution through two channels. On the one hand it …

, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 has added new features to the … prefer to develop adjustment strategies in their destination countries. Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 did not …

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the … Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …