Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that democracy and corruption have substantial influence on … environmental policy. In this paper, we empirically analyse whether both democracy and corruption are equally important determinants …. When these variables are jointly included as explanatory variables, we find that corruption stands out as an important …

There has been considerable research on the effect of democracy on trade openness since the 1980s when development … strategies toward free trade and democracy were rapidly adopted in developing countries. Most studies have focused on Asian … attempt to fill that gap and uses a gravity model approach to test the effects of democracy in SSA on trade. Our results show …

. (2017) our main findings are the following: i) countries experiencing a high degree of corruption, a high risk to investment … evidence for a threshold effect on the relationship between investment profile-RER, corruption-RER and political instability …-RER. Specifically, political instability and corruption adversely affect real exchange rate especially when they exceed the threshold …

, technical development does not have a similar effect. Low institutional quality exemplified by high public sector corruption has …

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 …

Up until the 1980s, studies on corruption were dominated by disciplines of public administration and sociology. In the … International Agency, corruption, which has a negative impact on most macroeconomic indicators, is “the abuse of entrusted power for … private gain”. Even though the disruption of corruption causing weak growth and investment rates has long been examined, there …

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …