We construct two variants of a three-player one-shot corruption game, one in which reporting on bribers is cumbersome … is, corruption, while larger penalties on the official decrease corruption. Second, when comparing the two models, we … obtain the surprising result that the probability of reciprocated bribery (corruption) is higher in the variant where the …

dysfunction as a result of action of institutional factors, in particular, corruption as an informal negative institute. The … the level of perceptible corruption. This suggests that democracy facilitates dispersion of responsibility and alienation …

Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to … measurement in conventional (illegal) corruption indicators. It is found that manifestations of legal corruption may be more …

Does the disclosure of information about corrupt activities induce a sustained reduction in corruption? We use … longitudinal data on audits of municipal governments in Puerto Rico to answer this question. We find that corruption is lower in … municipalities audited before an election. However, these municipalities do not exhibit decreased levels of corruption in subsequent …

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …

There is increasing recognition that corruption has an adverse influence on growth as it distorts both market economy … sample selection is concerned. This paper empirically reexamines the relationship between corruption and growth after …, corruption is shown to be an obstacle to growth generally, a conclusion that is in line with the existing literature. Furthermore …

The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in informal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data …/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more …