when corruption is too pervasive, and when the origin of tax revenue origin reduces government accountability. Lastly, our …

about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political … and economic crises to assess what we can learn from the long-term effects of past crises on corruption. We hypothesize … that strong rule of law institutions may ameliorate the possible adverse effects of political and economic crises on …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …

entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …

entrepreneurship in fragile state. -- entrepreneurship ; development ; fragile states ; institutions ; business ; environment …This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this …

officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability …We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public … legal equality can be considered worse in reducing corruption. Finally, corruption is significantly lower when the detection …

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

on the subject notwithstanding, there is limited exploration of the specific types of institutions critical for improving … fiscal capacity in resourcerich contexts. This paper investigates which types of institutions moderate the adverse effect of … important are national income per capita, the size of the agricultural sector, and control of corruption. The results suggest …

effects of the natural resources sector is the type of states and political institutions that resourceabundant economies …