The paper analyses the impact of natural resource abundance on selected governance indicators. In contrast to earlier studies that are mainly confined to cross-sectional analysis, we use a panel data set with a large number of countries and an extended period of time. Moreover, we employ an...

This research analyzes the effects of the similarities in economic size and institutional level on bilateral trade. It is interested, whether the similarities at the country size and institutional level encourage enlarging volume of international trade between countries. Using panel data of the...

Though blockchain aims to alleviate bribing attacks, users can collude with miners by directly sending bribes. This paper focuses on empirical evidence of bribes to miners, and the detected behaviour implies that mining power could be exploited. By scanning transactions on Ethereum, transactions...