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

. Finally, we derive a positive relationship between the optimal level of a bureaucracy's influence and the relevance of long …-term investments in a given policy area. -- political agency ; hyperbolic discounting ; bureaucracy …

Screening requirements are common features of fraud and corruption mitigation efforts around the world. Yet imposing …

Screening requirements are common features of fraud and corruption mitigation efforts around the world. Yet imposing …

the internal organization of the U.S. federal bureaucracy over 1817-1905. First, we show a series of facts, describing how …

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 …

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 …