Many recent studies have looked at the macroeconomic, cultural and institutional determinants of corruption at the … bribes and the firms paying bribes affect the equilibrium level of corruption in the sector. Bribe takers (utility employees … empirical literature on corruption is how to distinguish between the "endogenous harassment" and "speed money" theories of …

The paper analyzes the welfare properties of voluntary agreements (VA) with polluters, when they are obtained under the … a polluter lobby group influencing the legislature. We show that a welfare-improving VA systematically emerges in …

The topic of corruption has recently attracted a great deal of attention, yet there is still a lack of micro level … empirical evidence regarding the determinants of corruption. Furthermore, the present literature has not investigated the … effects of political interest on corruption despite the interesting potential of this link. We address these deficiencies by …

With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …

the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of … corruption is positively associated with social interaction. Then we empirically verify the theoretical prediction using within … a statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings, therefore, underscore the …