characterize countries according to the quality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty of … citizens varies across sixteen countries. This paper explores the honesty among citizens across sixteen countries and not of …, international indices that are indicative of institutional honesty are completely uncorrelated with citizens' honesty for our sample …

interventions, particularly in areas of public goods provision, voting behaviour, and specific measures to address corruption and …

unusually close look at the relationship between bureaucratic organization, bribe-setting behavior and the costs corruption … bureaucrats to engage in "collusive" or "coercive" types of corruption. We then observe how firms adjust their shipping and … sourcing strategies in response to different types of corruption. "Collusive" corruption is cost-reducing for firms, increasing …

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and infrastructure at both the country and regional level using … the measure of corruption in the macro data and the measures of transportation and electricity infrastructure. Countries … with more corruption tend to have worse infrastructure in the eyes of their firms. This link is shown to remain when one …

suggests thaht corruption, which is likely to emerge in long term reciprocal relationships between public officials and …