This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …

about misconduct by government officials, so that, even when each complaint is unlikely to succeed, more frequent complaints … encourage better behavior from officials. Newly assembled individual-level survey data from the World Justice Project show that … survey data on reporting crime and corruption. Citizen complaints might thus be an operative mechanism that explains the link …

.e., those where groups live more spatially separately, have a substantially lower quality of government. In contrast, there is … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality …

, indicating that most government insiders quickly wear out their welcome, and then drop once the minister is fully entrenched in …

city inhabitants, and lower levels of military spending by ruling elites, as predicted by the theory …

examine the effect of capital flows on the transmission of stagnation. In a world with a low natural rate of interest, greater …

The integration of world capital markets carries important implications for the design and impact of tax policies. This … recent efforts to reconcile observations with theory. To the extent that multinational firms possess intangible capital on …