Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. This …

simple way to combat corruption. However, empirical evidence on the corruption and regulation nexus is limited. Further, the … corruption indices used are based on experts' opinions, which may suffer from perception bias. The present paper attempts to … analysis finds a large, positive effect of regulatory burden on corruption. For the baseline results, the bribery rate is …

competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank …

Using firm-level data from more than 39,000 firms in 111 economies, this paper tests the hypothesis that corruption … between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …

What sorts of conditions make some countries more prone to corruption than the others? This is an important question … for understanding how corruption arises and how to combat it. The present paper attempts to answer this question by … exploring the link between the size of the country and corruption. Economic theory suggests advantages and disadvantages of …

This paper addresses the causal relationship between corruption and youth unemployment from two different perspectives …. The discussion starts by asking how the corruption practices within government institutions that encourage the payment of … controlling for various macroeconomic and institutional factors, the development of corruption practices tend to increase the …

paper shows how this new research can shed light on the ubiquity of corruption in so many societies, and proposes ideas for … controlling corruption …

The authors examine the role of governance-measured by level of corruption and quality of bureaucracy-and ask how it …