Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …

of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that corruption … is going to decrease because of the efforts of the EU to fight corruption or because of the opening of the markets to …

Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual … enforcement to combat corruption by increasing enforcement employment is ineffective, rather comprehensive improvements in …

This paper contributes to the discussion and understanding of corruption in transition countries. Specifically, we use … annual data over 1998 - 2002 for 25 transition economies to study factors that cause corruption. Two widely used measures of … corruption are employed to test the validity of our findings. Among the various factors that significantly lower corruption, the …

generally robust to an alternate corruption measure and to simultaneity between corruption and regulation. Results for ‘standard …This paper adds to the literature on the government-corruption nexus by examining the effects of taxation and various … business regulations on cross-country corruption. Regulations considered include the number of procedures and related costs for …