that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the … general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves. However … least petty and grand corruption. The findings reported here challenge the value of perceptions of corruption as indications …

show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves … average opinion about least petty and grand corruption. The findings reported here challenge the value of perceptions of …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional … level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher … heterogeneity, regulation, abundance of resource and state-owned enterprises substantially breed regional corruption. Moreover …

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …

Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. This paper examines whether living … since, as we show, it comes at the expense of cutting food consumption. These findings suggest that corruption is a …

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional … level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher … heterogeneity, regulation, abundance of resource and state-owned enterprises substantially breed regional corruption. Moreover …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

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 …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …