towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty …

This study examines the notion of governance while corruption and polity act in a negotiated approach. It adopts a … perspective. This study argues that corruption and polity collectively define the state of governance in a particular country … to renew our understanding on governance to strengthen the governance mechanism whereby corruption could be checked …

effect is strengthened in countries with lower level of public sector corruption and better functioning legal systems …

Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

In this paper, we analyze the nature of cooperation in different corruption regimes. In a laboratory experiment with … university students in Mexico, individuals play first a corruption game and then a public goods game. The corruption game is … results. First, there is more corruption in the low-monitoring group. Second, in the public goods game there is less …

The focus of this paper is on improving governance through the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in …

We study the eÞect of international financial integration on economic development when the quality of governance may be … compromised by corruption. Our analysis is based on a dynamic general equilibrium model of a small economy in which growth is … driven by capital accumulation and public policy is administered by government appointed bureaucrats. Corruption may arise …