interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … the gap. We identify conditions under which economic reform in the formal segment will increase the rate of corruption or … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …

-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …

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

dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on …

We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and … investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960–2014. We relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial … accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework on the relationship between corruption and … development. The paper demonstrates how the impact of corruption on economic development (ED) might vary substantially from … concepts from corruption and development. A synthesis of these two concepts leads to the development of the conceptual …