This paper examines the reasons why corruption and policy distortions tend to exhibit a high degree of persistence in … and (2) lobbying high-level government politicians to resist legal reforms designed to improve judicial efficiency and … eliminate corruption. The analysis predicts that in politically unstable regimes the institutions necessary to monitor and …

This article addresses the mediating effect of corruption on the influence of stringency of environmental regulation on …, thus supporting a crowding-out effect of mandatory regulation on voluntary action. Second, increased corruption reduces the …) across European Union countries from 1995 to 2011, we unveil a direct and an interacting effect of countries' corruption and …