Introduction / Enid Slack and Rupak Chattopadhyay -- Canberra, Australia / Graham Sansom -- Brussels, Belgium / Caroline van Wynesberghe -- Ottawa, Canada / Almos Tassonyi -- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia / Assefa Fiseha -- Berlin, Germany / Horst Zimmermann -- New Delhi, India / Om Prakash Mathur --...

In this study we investigate how both local environment and individual characteristics explain incidence of corruption. More specifically, we explore how city size, and residing in a capital city influence the two aspects of corruption, notably in individuals' contact with officials, and in the...

Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by...