phenomenon of persisting corruption in Italy and in other countries. Econometric estimates, using statistics on crimes against … the public administration at a provincial level, show that corruption campaign 'Clean Hands' started in Italy in 1990 has …Several studies shows that corruption is a persistent phenomenon and that many anticorruption campaigns failed in the …

We investigate the relationship between corruption and economic performance, focusing on the historical roots of the … social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … empirically test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying …

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems. …

We examine the effects of oil rents on corruption and state stability exploiting the exogenous within-country variation … increase in oil rents significantly increases corruption, significantly deteriorates political rights while at the same time … redistribution and conflict. We support our argument documenting that there is a significant effect of oil rents on corruption in …

when the government is more stable. Corruption is associated with less spending in developing countries, but with more … corruption are fundamental to improving the capacity of developing countries to scale up GHE, and to increasing the efficiency of … stronger monitoring mechanisms for corruption. Delivering aid through NGOs may be an option in countries with high ethnic …

functions and political business cycles; (2) democracy and institutions; (3) the economics of corruption; (4) development aid …

The aim of this work is to analyse the influence of sociocultural factors on corruption levels. Taking as starting …, Taube M, Schramm M (eds) The new institutional economics of corruption. Routledge, London, <CitationRef CitationID="CR12 … capital with corruption. According to our results, the universalistic trust (linking and bridging social capital) constitutes …

We examine the influence of social capital and various prevailing beliefs on household repayment behavior in Europe … among households living in regions with dense corruption beliefs, low confidence in institutions and authorities, and a low …