, corruption, and trade agreements, suggesting that firms intentionally misreport trade data. These misreports have implications …

countries with higher corruption norms, lower government control and effectiveness. Predictions of the level of counterfeiting …

In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model … corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter penalties with the … eradication of corruption as the final goal. We propose an alternative approach which emphasizes why corruption arises in the …

In this paper we analyze the link between corruption money laundering and round-trip investment via offshore … the conclusion that there is a strong link between round-trip investment and corruption money laundering …

are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …

This paper studies the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment. The sample covers bilateral investment from … the tax rate on multinational firms or the corruption level in a host country reduces inward foreign direct investment … (FDI). An increase in the corruption level from that of Singapore to that of Mexico is equivalent to raising the tax rate …

Corruption and imperfect contract enforcement dramatically reduce trade. This paper estimates the reduction, using a …