Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the … significantly more likely to prevent corruption in public procurement, a key area of illicit interactions between the state and … limit corruption, but also foster the use of violence as an alternative tool to influence policymaking …

the recent anti-corruption campaign. An analysis of a separate cross-city dataset corroborates the key conclusion …

arise when monitoring corruption is difficult relative to monitoring the provision of public services, and politically …-important groups of citizens do not bear the full cost of corruption. The existence of such systems can distort the effective incidence … of the tax burden, reduce the incentives of government to fight corruption, and legitimize bribe-taking …

risk, such as corruption, negatively impacts innovation by reducing R&D expenditure, human capital in R&D, number of …

possibility that some features of FDI host countries, such as bureaucratic corruption, may deter inward FDI, but are positively … explicitly into account corruption level in host countries and using a firm-level data set on investment projects in 24 …

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

literature: corruption may affect a country's composition of capital inflows in a way that makes it more likely to experience a …