We study the effect of fair institutions on growth. In our model, individuals are endowed with unequal entitlements to … growth.Experimentally, we observe significantly less cooperation, when dictators chose high instead of low inequality. This … equal opportunitiesare less likely to suffer retarded growth due to free-riding than economies with self-serving dictators... …

associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … have a robustnegative association with both corruption and inequality. Radios and TVs are alsoobserved to have a robust … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and …

, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent,infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at …

Wirtschaftsethik primär behandelten Probleme wie Umweltverschmutzung, Korruption, Arbeitslosigkeit oder Armut nicht lösbar sind, ohne … ökonomische Theorie der Moral auffassen und hierbei ein methodisches Verständnis von Ökonomik als allgemeiner (Rational …

Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democraticinstitutions, restricts public … determines corruption islimited. This paper uses a novel dataset of political corruption in local governments,constructed from … reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibilityof re-election affects the level of rents …

This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity … be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative … effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it …