increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to … impact of city council dissolution for mafia influence in Italy as prescribed by Decree Law 164/1991 in discouraging violence …

Corruption is widely spread across the world and is believed to affect economic growth negatively. It is most … procurement in Russia due to corruption. Unfortunately, to measure corruption is very challenging. In this paper, using the data … on procurement in one of the Russian regions as an example, we suggest and discuss different indicators of corruption …

We provide a positive analysis of the equilibrium bidding and bribing strategies with and without corruption in a first …-price, sealed-bid, procurement auction with two-dimensional-type bidders. With corruption, we assume that the quality of the bidders … and bribe decrease in the number of bidders. Moreover, we show that in this auction with corruption, quality is randomly …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …

Mezzogiorno to the North of Italy, suggests that the push and pull effects of corruption stir up the endurance of the well … places endowed with more amenities. In the crossroad between these factors, this paper investigates corruption as key element …. Results suggest the dual role of push and pull mechanisms at play, as high corruption incentivizes Italian skilled mobility to …

analyse how petty corruption erodes tax morale. A mediation analysis shows that petty corruption directly reduces tax morale … severe in countries and regions where fewer people are affected by petty corruption and becomes insignificant if extortion of …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …

reinforcing inequality and corruption. Despite the broad empirical evidence, there are only a few formal theoretical models on … these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach, we show how inequality and corruption are interconnected via a crime … societies feature high levels of corruption and criminal activity. Surprisingly, our results allow for the interpretation that …

at favoring universalism may provide an effective tool in the fight against corruption …