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 … heterogeneity, regulation, abundance of resource and state-owned enterprises substantially breed regional corruption. Moreover …

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 …

increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to …

Recent literature highlights a paradox in corruption prevention messaging: instead of reducing tolerance for corruption …, such campaigns can inadvertently intensify it by priming the existence of corruption while failing to diminish citizens … combating corruption often backfire among individuals with preexisting negative perceptions of corruption, we posit that an …

An influential body of scholarship argues that corruption behaves as a selffulfilling prophecy. The idea of this work … is that levels of corruption emerge endogenously as a result of a society-wide coordination game in which ther individual … returns to corrupt behavior are a function of how disposed towards corruption the other members of society are perceived as …

the related coping strategies produce some kind of externalities toward others. Whether they are positive or negative, the … presence of externalities may lead the system towards Pareto-dominated states. In this work, we study under and over … externalities to other agents. We distinguish adaptation technologies between maladaptation and mitigation ones, depending on the …

study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …