This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …

action became permanent features of the G20 agenda. Tackling corruption was one of them. Corruption is being characterised as … an international problem requiring collective corrective action. The G20 established an Anti-Corruption Working Group as … early as in 2010, at the fourth summit in Toronto, which sets the Anti-Corruption Action Plan for the G20 members. Over the …

places endowed with more amenities. In the crossroad between these factors, this paper investigates corruption as key element …. Results suggest the dual role of push and pull mechanisms at play, as high corruption incentivizes Italian skilled mobility to … destinations that, instead, exhibit lower corruption. Moreover, sensitivity of the prospective tertiary students to corruption …

that emergency measures, in the times of economic and social fragility, may result in corruption. This paper investigates … the potential threats of corruption due to fiscal expansion during the pandemic and discusses recent evidence from G20 … members on the mechanisms in place to address corruption. More generally, using available secondary data, the paper compares …

We provide a theory of how growth, corruption, and a low-powered public-sector pay scale coexist in a stable … widespread corruption. …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an … objective measure of corruption: the number of public officials convicted in a state for crimes related to corruption. Second …

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 …

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 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 …