implications of these for human society at large, when and if our AI make the "wrong" choice we need to understand how they got … are at stake (e.g., health, well-being, finance, law) or when major individual or household decisions are taken. Doing so … requires opening up the "black box" of AI; especially as they act, interact, and adapt in a human world and how they interact …

Corruption literature within economics has long returned ambiguous results with no concise cause or impact of … corruption identified. This meta-analysis aims to find synergy within the corruption literature by assessing macroeconomic … empirical studies that evaluate whether corruption "greases or sands" the wheels of economic development. The meta …

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 …

political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights …This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … prediction. Moreover, the effect of democratization on corruption depends on the protection of property rights and income …

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 …

in China that is mainly driven by the transition to a market economy. -- Corruption ; China ; Government …In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional … level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher …

analyzing a cross-section of individuals, using the World Values Survey. We explore the determinants of corruption through two …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 …

The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables specific to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980 …