Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and infrastructure at both the country and regional level using … the measure of corruption in the macro data and the measures of transportation and electricity infrastructure. Countries … with more corruption tend to have worse infrastructure in the eyes of their firms. This link is shown to remain when one …

This paper documents that standard measures of corruption based on the perceptions of experts and opinion surveys and … corruption is in a country. We then show that while perceptions of corruption are significantly associated with the amount of … zero in a foreign country (greenfield investment) is significantly associated with the experience of corruption while …

with a 0.5% decrease in the probability that a firm will consider corruption to be an obstacle to their current operations … effect on either corruption outcome. …

Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

Surveys, which measure firms’ experience of corruption and the gender of their owners and top managers. We find that women in … positions of influence are associated with less corruption: female-owned businesses pay less in bribes and corruption is seen as …, ethically at least, good for business our research contributes to the literature on development, gender equality, and corruption …

We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public … officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability … legal equality can be considered worse in reducing corruption. Finally, corruption is significantly lower when the detection …