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 …

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 …

, one associated with high and another with low corruption. Corrupted politicians induce high levels of tax evasion … corruption equilibrium by choosing the appropriate tax rate and, through institutional changes, the rates of peculation …. -- Corruption ; Environmental Policy …

economic theory of internal political competition. -- Corruption ; Dictatorship ; Lending and Indebtedness ; Looting ; Natural … corrupt economies in resource-rich countries. An empirical analysis of available corruption indices suggests that instability …-led looting provides a more fundamental explanation of perceived corruption than do various social and cultural indicators or the …