whistleblower laws and provisions, focusing on the United States. Placing the analysis within the larger corruption literature, our … results show that greater whistleblower awareness results in more observed corruption and this holds across specifications …. Internet awareness of whistleblower laws appears to be more effective at exposing corruption than the quantity and quality of …

We hypothesize that the spread of the Internet has reduced corruption, chiefly through two mechanisms. First, the … that the spread of the Internet has reduced the extent of corruption across the globe and across the U.S. The size of the …

corruption, this paper examines whether formal sector productive (unproductive) entrepreneurial activity is associated with lower … corruption by asking whether corruption affects entrepreneurial outcomes primarily through its effects on the shadow economy. I … contend that if this is the case, then estimates of corruption should serve as a good instrument for shadow economy size in …

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 …

the many benefits of elective shareholder liability, the proposal anticipates the development of a derivatives market that …