We explore the exercise of power in perpetuating status quo institutions. We give empirical examples of the economic …

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 …

This paper offers a new theory of the corruption-shadow economy relationship: one that defines it as either collusive … – i.e., crony – or non-collusive. Using new estimates of state-level shadow economy size, and data on corruption … entrepreneurship scores from Wiseman and Young (2014). Findings suggest that corruption and shadow economy size are positively related …

partly explained by the low quality of (subsequent) judicial institutions. The specificity of our results to violent crime …

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