We examine the response of the news-based Corruption Reflection Index (CRI) to positive shocks in oil revenues in Iran …. Our findings reveal a positive and significant response of corruption to oil shocks. The key channels through which this … relationship operates include inflation, military spending, and the degradation of democratic institutions. Moreover, we provide a …

from 1990 to 2017. We investigate the dynamic interaction between democracy and military institutions using a panel vector …This study examines the dynamic relationship between democracy and the military in more than 40 developing countries … autoregressive model and impulse response functions as well as variance decomposition analyses. We show that democracy plays a …

stronger political institutions, as measured by democracy indicators, manage to alleviate some of the adverse effects of US …

hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002–2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …

This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …

hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002 - 2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15 - 64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …

public corruption to explain the significant cause of cross-country variation in immunization progress. We suggest that … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …

of a higher national average cognitive ability on corruption holds only in countries with a relatively high quality of …