Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official … corruption, this paper examines whether formal sector productive (unproductive) entrepreneurial activity is associated with lower … (higher) levels of informal economic activity. Additionally, I aim to connect entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and …

Economic and rent-seeking outcomes are determined jointly in a dynamic general equilibrium model of corruption, public … responsible for providing public goods, which contribute to productive efficiency. Corruption arises because of an opportunity for …. The model produces multiple development regimes, which yield different predictions about corruption, public spending and …

The negative effects of corruption at the macro level are well documented. Corruption reduces economic growth, lowers … productive to destructive activities. In corrupt regimes, rent-seeking and cronyism crowd out value-creating entrepreneurship …. Corruption also has effects at the micro level because some industries are better situated to profit from corruption than others …

This review attempts to identify treatments of corruption that draw upon characteristics of underdevelopment either as … causes or as consequences. It focuses on three aspects of corruption in developing economies: red tape, rent-seeking, and the … the structure of corruption markets …

of empirical studies about the relationships among entrepreneurial activity, corruption, commercial freedom, economic …, households, and NPISHs' final consumption expenditure and education on entrepreneurial activity. Corruption, unemployment, age …