This paper investigates whether the costs of corruption are conditional on the extent of government intervention in the … economy. We use data on corruption convictions and economic growth between 1975 and 2007 across the U.S. states to test this … evidence for the "weak" form of the grease-the-wheels hypothesis. While corruption is never good for growth, its harmful …

We hypothesize that the spread of the Internet has reduced corruption, chiefly through two mechanisms. First, the … that the spread of the Internet has reduced the extent of corruption across the globe and across the U.S. The size of the …

burden (not necessarily low statutory tax rates), sizable revenue mobilization, good rule of law and control of corruption … administration of tax and regulatory regimes--not higher tax rates alone--as well as corruption, that increases the size of the … firms experience a greater tax and regulatory burden, as well as more bribery and corruption. The unofficial economy is also …

unbundling of corruption into meaningful and measurable components. They contrast state capture (firms shaping and affecting … without recourse to payments) and with administrative corruption ("petty" forms of bribery in connection with the … empirical measurement utilizing the BEEPS data. State capture, influence, and administrative corruption are all shown to have …

-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given … corruption on pollution. The indirect effect via income is positive or negative depending on the income level. If negative, the … corruption. Because this relationship is particularly strong at low income levels, developing countries can considerably improve …

finance. It is a natural extension of "Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç …) hypotheses that English common-law countries tend to have better developed financial intermediaries than French civil-law …

Recent studies have highlighted the adverse impact of corruption on economic performance. This paper advances the … hypothesis that corruption is largely a symptom of underlying weaknesses in public policies and institutions, a formulation that … provides deeper insights into economic performance than do measures of perceived corruption. The hypothesis is tested by …

officers to defend each other, why do law-abiding policemen defend those who have broken the law? We investigate under what …