This paper examines the effect of corruption on the business environment in Viet Nam. Our survey of firms operating in … Viet Nam suggests that corruption is perceived as the most severe business constraint for their operation. Also, corruption … support the hypothesis that corruption has a "sand the wheel" effect on firms' business activities. While this paper sheds …

A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness are the indicators which are statistically different for these sets of …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …

corruption-free or plagued by corruption. Contingent on the nature of adjudicatory bias, bribery either discourages private … antitrust lawsuits or incentivizes firms to engage in frivolous litigation. Corruption expectedly reduces the effectiveness of … can be social welfare-enhancing even in the presence of corruption. Under some circumstances, corruption actually …

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …