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 …

especially on the nexus between convictions for corruption and for insurance fraud. Results show that corruption convictions tend … to crowd out insurance fraud convictions -- i.e., increases in convictions for corruption result in lower fraud … corruption and insurance fraud. Policy implications are discussed …

We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …