This study investigates the connection between rent-seeking behaviour, corruption activity and quality of institutions … seems to have generated a growth of corruption activity, arisen from the opportunity of rent extraction. In particular … concentrated and administrative procedures are more complicated. To determine the causal effect of the subsidies on corruption, the …

individuals, using micro-data from the World Values Survey, covering 38 countries, to investigate trust in international …, the paper goes beyond previous studies investigating also the impact of geographic identification, corruption and … globalization. We find that a higher level of (perceived) corruption reduces the trust in the UN in developed countries, but …

less corruption, more social welfare and education spending, more open markets, and better functioning government … residential segregation leads to less trust because it leads to less interaction across different groups in society - and leads … upon majority groups. I then discuss how economic inequality and the rule of law shape the relationship between trust and …

Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that democracy and corruption have substantial influence on … environmental policy. In this paper, we empirically analyse whether both democracy and corruption are equally important determinants …. When these variables are jointly included as explanatory variables, we find that corruption stands out as an important …

situation which threatens the sustainability of community forests including sacred groves, religion has been used to justify …

beliefs and participation, the relation between the size of the religion and the intensity of its members’ beliefs, religious …

, one associated with high and another with low corruption. Corrupted politicians induce high levels of tax evasion … corruption equilibrium by choosing the appropriate tax rate and, through institutional changes, the rates of peculation …

corrupt economies in resource-rich countries. An empirical analysis of available corruption indices suggests that instability …-led looting provides a more fundamental explanation of perceived corruption than do various social and cultural indicators or the …

the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of … corruption is positively associated with social interaction. Then we empirically verify the theoretical prediction using within … a statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings, therefore, underscore the …