This paper investigates how corruption affects firrm behavior. Firms can engage in two types of corruption when seeking … a public service: cost-reducing "collusive" corruption and cost increasing "coercive" corruption. Using an original and … corruption by adjusting their shipping and sourcing strategies. "Collusive" corruption is associated with higher usage of the …

tariff evasion on imported goods. This is however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into other firms of … of corruption. I then provide suggestive evidence on how these displacement affects can be economically costly given that … in the design of trade and anti-corruption policies. …

for tariff evasion. This was however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into more coercive forms of bribe … design of trade and anti-corruption policies. …

. The indicators of institutional quality are corruption, bureaucratic quality and the rule of law. We find that reducing … corruption has a positive impact on genuine saving in interaction with resource abundance. That is, the negative effect of … resource abundance on genuine saving is reduced as corruption is reduced. …

corruption play a role for the success of such lobbying? In this paper, we propose that a more corruptible government may be more … activity raises the probability of ratification, and the effect rises with the degree of corruption. …

corruption. This result holds across both the entire sample (of both developed and developing countries), and only for developing …