, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The … incompetence shown by the government in providing relief, the corruption allegations in regards to those efforts, and government … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …

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

per diem compensation increases it. We also show that corruption in home country has a negative effect on attendance for …

market economy and democracy. Our results show that the five best ranked countries are all western democracies. Our global … effective democracy, and there are very large regional differences, confirming the dictum by Huntington (1996) about Turkey as a … advised to continue to support civil society and secular democracy in Turkey. …

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 …

We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant …

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …