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 …

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 …

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective failure is …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the tragedy of corruption altogether …

We investigate whether mining affects local-level corruption in Africa. Several cross-country analyses report that … natural resource production and wealth have adverse effects on political institutions, for instance by increasing corruption …

This paper examines the role of corruption in the relationship between natural resources and exports diversifi­ cation … diversification while forest and mineral resources decrease export diversification. Also, in the short run, executive corruption …, executive corruption instead mitigates the negative effect of natural resources irrespective of their type on export …

When do resource revenues increase corruption? I develop a model of public good provision by a politician who obtains … revenues unambiguously increase public goods spending, and decrease corruption (in the form of bribes) if the marginal social … increases corruption (in the form of theft). Hence, a political resource curse emerges when resources provide ‘too much …