administration of tax and regulatory regimes--not higher tax rates alone--as well as corruption, that increases the size of the … firms experience a greater tax and regulatory burden, as well as more bribery and corruption. The unofficial economy is also … larger unofficial economy tend to grow more slowly. Thus, this framework suggests an additional channel whereby corruption …

Article 6 of the UN Convention Against Corruption requires that signatory states establish an anti-corruption agency … (or agencies) responsible for preventing corruption. However, the Convention - and legal scholarship in general - provides … little direction about how such agencies should be organised. Moreover, the piece-meal nature of anti-corruption legislation …

of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that corruption … is going to decrease because of the efforts of the EU to fight corruption or because of the opening of the markets to …

Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …

Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual … enforcement to combat corruption by increasing enforcement employment is ineffective, rather comprehensive improvements in …