A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … to find that both Corruption Perception Index and ICRG index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic … variables. We find that in the absence of the shadow economy, corruption increases inequality. However, with larger shadow …

measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based on a bias-adjusted measure of hours spent on home production. Sensitivity … analyses comparing results obtained from different approaches provide indications of methodological effects arising from the … choice of method. Although the substantive notion of reduced inequality is stable, the degree of variation in our findings …

bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of … that considers the implications of trust networks. A bond of trust may permit an implicit quid pro quo to substitute for a …

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of … the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire …/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total of these rents: the difference in reported subjective well …

This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings … earnings and expenditures to identify the size of unobserved (unofficial) compensation (i.e., bribes) of public sector … employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem … - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy …'s bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the 'corruptibility' of bureaucrats in each case. Results …

, 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 …Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance …

The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death …, 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 …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …