Africa, home to some of the world’s largest Christian and Muslim communities. First, we use census data from 20 countries to … construct new upward and downward religion-specific intergenerational mobility (IM) statistics. Christian boys and girls have … of religion-specific, institutional, and social conventions on education and opportunity …

Which commercial bank supervisory policies ease - or intensify - the degree to which bank corruption is an obstacle to … private sector tends to lower the degree to which corruption of bank officials is an obstacle to firms raising external …

political economy of deforestation. They are consistent with the literature on (under) provision of public goods and social …

less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid. On the contrary, according to some measures of corruption, more corrupt … governments receive more aid. Also, we could not find any evidence that an increase in foreign aid reduces corruption. In summary …

preventgovernments from appropriating rents when the economy is doing well. We test this argument against more traditional explanations …

Bigger governments raise the possibilities for corruption; more corruption may in turn raise the support for … redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize these insights in a … simple dynamic model. A positive feedback from past to current levels of taxation and corruption arises either when wealth …

This volume unites the perspective of business ethics with approaches from strategic management, economics, law … internationalization of the (global) economy and the free movement of capital, new instruments of political coordination are needed. These … and the self-conceptualization of business firms as corporate citizens within society. Compan …