industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on … perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about …

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …

The existence of ambiguity in the study of the impact of corruption on economic growth, namely the grease the wheel … hypothesis and sand the wheel hypothesis, trigger this research to look at the impact of corruption through another perspective …, i.e. income inequality. This study identifies the mutual influence between corruption and income inequality in Asian …

The destructive role of institutional quality such as corruption has been considered an important factor for economic …. This research examines the institutional role in controlling corruption within the preview of CO2 emissions-economic growth … nexus for the European Union. The study evaluates the moderating impact of corruption on the relationship between CO2 …

This paper empirically examines the impact of corruption on FDI in European Union countries, including candidate …, we find that corruption has a negative impact on FDI. -- FDI ; Corruption ; Efficient Grease Hypothesis ; OLS …

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …

How does corruption in Central and Eastern Europe hurt economic growth? The paper explains theoretical framework that … is applied to the problem of corruption and reveals its application difficulties. Corruption may be understood as the … corrupt behaviour. Within comparison of both agency theory and rent-seeking we argue that corruption in general is the problem …

In this paper, we argue that the answer to the question of whether the impact of corruption on development is … corruption, we are able to point out that institutions play important role in insulating citizens against the devastation caused … by corruption. Overall, through this comparison, we are able to signal that both incidental and systematic corruption …

This paper discusses the possible causes and consequences of corruption. It provides a synthetic review of recent … studies that analyze this phenomenon empirically. In addition, it presents further results on the effects of corruption on … growth and investment, and new cross-country evidence on the link between corruption and the composition of government …