This paper examines whether countries with higher income have less corruption. Earlier studies, utilizing pure cross …-section regressions, establish a strong association between income and corruption but do not consider factors (presumably, long … for such factors, we show that the statistical association between income and corruption disappears. …

In Italy, the corruption is a social phenomenon affecting the health sector. In this paper we show that the impact of … corruption on Italian health expenditure is positive, along with ageing population, technological change and supply factors … inducing demand in pharmaceuticals and hospitalization. Moreover, the empirical analysis shows that corruption affects …

policy game among interdependent economies plagued by corruption. Every country has a lower incentive to improve public … highlights a possible trade-off between fighting corruption in interrelated developing countries and promoting fiscal policy … coordination among them: cooperation goes together with the acceptance of more corruption. It follows that poor-institution traps …

Since the empirical evidence about the relation between higher salary and corruption in a bureaucracy is ambiguous, the …