This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …

The paper investigates how tax rates, corruption and institutional aspects of the labour market influence the size of … corruption, as well as the establishment of a new concept and variable, the subjective tax rate. Alternative regression …

The paper investigates how tax rates, corruption and institutional aspects of the labour market influence the size of … corruption, as well as the establishment of a new concept and variable, the subjective tax rate. Alternative regression …. -- Taxation ; corruption ; labour market ; hidden economy …

This paper compares corruption in China over the past 15 years with corruption in the U.S. between 1870 and 1930 …, periods that are roughly comparable in terms of real income per capita. Corruption indicators for both countries and both … periods are constructed by tracking corruption news in prominent U.S. newspapers. Several robustness checks confirm the …

by countries' political, institutional and legal characteristics and particularly by the level of perceived corruption in … notwithstanding, results indicate that corruption and poor institutional quality significantly interact with economic cofactors and …

We investigate how prescriptive and descriptive norms affect the development of corruption over time. In particular, we … are interested in whether the extent of corruption converges. If it does, we study how the level at which it converges … Netherlands, a Gneezy-type corruption task is used, with a real-effort task. We use a Krupka-Weber elicitation method to obtain …