countries with higher corruption norms, lower government control and effectiveness. Predictions of the level of counterfeiting …

In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model … corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter penalties with the … eradication of corruption as the final goal. We propose an alternative approach which emphasizes why corruption arises in the …

In this paper we analyze the link between corruption money laundering and round-trip investment via offshore … the conclusion that there is a strong link between round-trip investment and corruption money laundering …

are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …

nor Japanese investors treat corruption in East Asia any differently from that in other parts of the world. There are …This paper studies the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment. The sample covers bilateral investment from … the tax rate on multinational firms or the corruption level in a host country reduces inward foreign direct investment …

, corruption, and trade agreements, suggesting that firms intentionally misreport trade data. These misreports have implications …

Corruption and imperfect contract enforcement dramatically reduce trade. This paper estimates the reduction, using a …

have smaller welfare-state programs and less corruption. Other results present puzzles for future research: the adjustment …

Is corruption systematically related to electoral rules? A number of studies have tried to uncover economic and social … determinants of corruption but, as far as we know, nobody has yet empirically investigated how electoral systems ináuence … corruption. We try to address this lacuna in the literature, by relating corruption to dierent features of the electoral system …