programming in Egypt and Morocco illuminate reasons for this exception. Most states in the region are governed by authoritarian …

This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country … States from corruption-ridden countries are more likely to be apprehended than individuals from less corrupt countries are. …

techniques highlight the home country's social ills such as corruption, theft and homicide as key determinants. Also included in … host country. These results suggest that chronic socio-economic problems such as corruption, crimes, and poverty in the …

dimensions, is broadly consistent with the greasing effects of corruption. While the study uses data from a single nation that is …

I investigate the relation between corruption and the composition of state government spending in the United States …. The analysis reveals that the United States is not immune to the adverse effects of corruption documented in cross …-country studies. Corruption lowers the share of state government spending devoted to higher education, and raises the share of …

This paper investigates the relation between public corruption and the composition of state government expenditures in … the United States. The results suggest that the United States is not immune to the adverse effects of corruption that have … been documented using country-level expenditure data. In particular, I find that corruption reduces the share of spending …

This paper investigates whether the costs of corruption are conditional on the extent of government intervention in the … economy. We use data on corruption convictions and economic growth between 1975 and 2007 across the U.S. states to test this … evidence for the "weak" form of the grease-the-wheels hypothesis. While corruption is never good for growth, its harmful …