, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … growth of all firms, particularly micro and small firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure …

levels of public corruption and of effective governance taking place across nations. The first section develops a principal … Kaufmann et al. (1999a); a panel data set for the period 1980-95 and about 100 nations on corruption and bureaucratic quality … based on experts` rankings; and corruption data for the cross-section of US states in the period 1977-95 …

is that levels of corruption emerge endogenously as a result of a society-wide coordination game in which the individual … returns to corrupt behavior are a function of how disposed towards corruption the other members of society are perceived as …An influential body of scholarship argues that corruption behaves as a self-fulfilling prophecy. The idea of this work …

-seeking actions. Second, the longer the duration of democracy, the less rent-seeking in a society. Third, legislation enacted more …

rapid economic growth; this is hard to reconcile with standard political economy models of taxation. This paper argues that …

This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the world have … Latin American economies shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has …

, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling …