Many variables have been proposed by past studies as significant determinants of corruption. This paper asks if their … estimated impact on corruption is robust to alteration of the information set. A Global Sensitivity Analysis, based on the … Leamer`s Extreme-Bounds Analysis give a clear answer: five variables are robustly related to corruption. Corruption is lower …

Many variables have been proposed by past studies as significant determinants of corruption. This paper asks whether … their estimated impact on corruption is robust to alteration of the conditioning information set. A Global Sensitivity … corruption. These are: economic development, Protestant religion, colonial heritage, uninterrupted democracy and political …

corruption in a social dilemma setting where citizens simultaneously choose whether to obey the law or to break the law and …-breakers or, in treatments with corruption, extort bribes from any citizen. In the first study, we find that the presence of … reducing police corruption, both of which are based on society-wide police performance measures and not on the observation …

activism post peak. Our data suggest that this surge in activism can be attributed to heightened perceptions of corruption in … March and July 2021, we elicit willingness to act against fraud and corruption in the provision of health services by … the COVID-19 peak in their state of residence, we find evidence of a large and significant increase in anti-corruption …

social judgment affect individuals' decisions to engage in corruption at the expense of others. We are also interested in the … judgment reduces corruption only among individuals who identify culturally with countries characterized by low levels of … corruption. Our findings suggest that the effectiveness of social enforcement mechanisms is at least partly dependent on the …

uncertainty, intermediaries facilitate corruption by reducing the moral costs of possible bribers and bribees. Indeed … corruption. We address our research question using a specifically designed bribery lab experiment that simulates petty corruption … of citizens and officials and, thus, increase corruption. …