This dissertation is comprised of two papers. In the first one, titled "Public Investment and Corruption in an … regarding public investment, corruption, and economic growth. In the model, government maximizes the weighted average of …-selection of Politicians and Corruption," I, together with my coauthor Evsen Turkay, build a citizen-candidate model, in which …

implication that crime is unaffected by the magnitude of the penalty. This paper demonstrates that to attain this outcome, it is … equilibrium yield an inverse relationship between crime and the severity of the sanction. In an application, we enrich the … framework of Tsebelis by adding corruption stages and show that this can imply such a correlation of payoffs. Another …

activity that takes on transnational crime dimensions requires repressive legislation and international cooperation of …, in particular, money laundering, corruption, tax evasion, trafficking in human beings and as a transit country of drug …

results of an extensive ethnographic field study of the 2006 to 2008 Siemens corruption scandal. We find that this event did … corporate corruption with regard to its regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It is therefore particularly … perspective we reconstruct the development of the institutional context of the phenomenon corruption as well as its effects on the …

welfare through their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of ?pure …? corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central … bank employees and governors, even though corruption in the central bank is obviously possible. By the very nature of their …

in and that put their clout for the fight against corruption in question. Against this background, three novel anti-corruption …. What is more, legislation can also take advantage of these chinks to fight corruption effectively.In Section II it is … United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) are used as benchmarks. In addition, the respective legal provisions …

relationships'. The focus of the paper is on how and why corruption occurs in trustee decisionmaking, especially concerning … community development projects. Implications are drawn from the model of corruption for current debate over the proper scope of … systematic nature of corruption and the potential harm occasioned by corrupt trustee decisionmaking. It is also argued that the …

We consider a neoclassical growth model with endogenous corruption. Corruption and wealth, which are co-determined in … corruption, and if indeed as suggested by a number of empirical studies corruption hampers growth, then how did rich countries … relatively closed economies of the 19th century, the gains from corruption remained inside the country and became part of the …

Corruption brings a burden on the society especially on the poor, creates a high risk of macro-economy, endangers … financial stability, compromises security, law and public order, and above all, corruption humiliates state legitimating and … credibility before its people. Therefore, the institutions associating in Integrated Criminal Justice System such as Corruption …