What keeps corruption in check? Politicians have incentives to both avoid and actively oppose corruption when voters … corruption—legislators with influence in the policy-making process—also are well-positioned to benefit from corruption. We thus … wisdom, that as the number of checks increase so also should corruption increase, all else equal. This conclusion follows …

by low inflation, robust growth and low level of bureaucratic corruption due to better governance. In contrast, the … economic performance during the democratic regimes has been observed to worsen with weak governance and high levels of … corruption, high inflation due partly to reliance on seigniorage to finance public spending, and lackluster growth. Using annual …

This paper shows that longer trade times are associated with higher levels of trade-related corruption, consistent with …” to possibly corrupt customs officials. This finding is robust to the use of corruption measures based on perceptions and … border procedures and rampant corruption acts as a significant drag on international trade, in line with the model …

development policy. This paper focuses on a core topic in development policy: governance. It aims to address two key questions: (1 …) what have the main contributions of randomized controlled trials been to the study of governance? and (2) what could be the … trials can be useful in studying the effects of some policy interventions in the governance area, but they are limited in …

Using cross-country data, this paper investigates how governance influenced views regarding the security of nuclear …

links between the quality of governance, financial development and economic development. The main theoretical predictions …

nonlinear effect on government effectiveness, political stability, regulatory quality, rule of law and control of corruption …