This paper empirically evaluates the impact of accountability on fiscal capacity. It adopts an instrumental variable … reliable and is negatively correlated with our measure of accountability in line with the hypothesis. The results in the second …

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 …

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 …

financing increases with freedom from corruption, rule of law, quality of regulations, and decreases with court disputes. We …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an … objective measure of corruption: the number of public officials convicted in a state for crimes related to corruption. Second …

High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to … institutional environment the corruptible employee’s or official’s decision to engage in corruption is affected by relative wages … of inequality, which indicate diminished prospects facing those convicted of corruption. In US states over 25 years we …

We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In … places that are closer to the capital. Consistent with lower accountability, there is also evidence that there is more money … in state-level political campaigns in those states with isolated capitals. We find that the role of media accountability …