A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …

The paper investigates the effects of checks and balances on corruption. Within a presidential system, effective … government and elected, rather than appointed, state supreme court judges are associated with lower corruption and, furthermore …

High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to … institutional environment the corruptible employee's or official's decision to engage in corruption is affected by relative wages … of inequality, which indicate diminished prospects facing those convicted of corruption. In US states over 25 years we …

whistle on corruption. We demonstrate in a simple game-theoretical model how murders can serve as an enforcement mechanism of … through three periods, we find that corruption is strongly related to the incidence of murders on journalists in countries …

This article investigates the relationship between corruption and firm performance in Greece using firm level data … corruption is more important. The contextual effect of corruption identifies the magnitude of systemic corruption in Greece …. Corruption is overall negatively associated with firm size and growth at the firm level. We focus on the effect of …

This paper considers the effect of corruption on the effciency of capital investment. Using firm-level level data from …

We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …