We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption …

those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher … corruption increases level of employment in the informal sector. Further, our analysis also shows that for higher levels of …

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the … Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …

A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both 'Corruption Perception Index' and 'ICRG' index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …

Previous empirical work on corruption has generally been cross-country in nature and focused on utilizing country …-level corruption ratings. By using micro-level data for over 20 European countries that directly measure individual characteristics …, corruption experiences, gender roles, trust and values to examine the determinants of corruption, this paper goes beyond the …