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 …

Transparency is usually thought to reduce favoritism and corruption by facilitating monitoring by outsiders, but there … aggregates favoritism (nationalistic bias from own-country judges) and corruption (vote trading), actually increased slightly …

all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to …

on terrorist attacks in the Middle East: Radical religious clubs are more lethal and choose suicide terrorism more often …, when they provide benign local public goods. Our results suggest benign tactics to counter terrorism by religious radicals …

This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast … with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of … terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this …

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 …

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