probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead more corruption as more voters are part of the … corrupt system. Well-functioning financial institutions, in turn, can increase the political support for anti-corruption …In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even they have democratic political …

the rents from corruption. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more … political pressure to reduce corruption if financial institutions are missing. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt …-functioning financial institutions, in turn, can increase the political support for anti-corruption measures. …

positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even if they have democratic … high corruption levels. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt officials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative …

There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of … groups and the incidence of political corruption and determines whether electoral competition can eliminate political … corruption. We obtain some striking results. Greater electoral competition serves to lessen policy distortions. However, this in …

Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger … copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout …

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …

The paper explores a game-theoreticmodel of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of …

Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that democracy and corruption have substantial influence on … environmental policy. In this paper, we empirically analyse whether both democracy and corruption are equally important determinants …. When these variables are jointly included as explanatory variables, we find that corruption stands out as an important …

itself, which performs an anti-corruption task - with the payment of illegal contributions, and provide general conditions …

The topic of corruption has recently attracted a great deal of attention, yet there is still a lack of micro level … empirical evidence regarding the determinants of corruption. Furthermore, the present literature has not investigated the … effects of political interest on corruption despite the interesting potential of this link. We address these deficiencies by …