burden of bureaucracy and corruption. Dodging the Grabbing Hand in this way reduces tax revenues as a percent of both …Across 69 countries, higher tax rates are associated with less unofficial activity as a percent of GDP but corruption …

burden of bureaucracy and corruption. Dodging the Grabbing Hand in this way reduces tax revenues as a percent of both …Across 69 countries, higher tax rates are associated with less unofficial activity as a percent of GDP but corruption …

into the official economy. Corruption, measured by the size of bribes that local officials charge entrepreneurs for issuing …

Social Survey. Consistent with the theory, particularism is found to have a positive causal effect on the probability of … at favoring universalism may provide an effective tool in the fight against corruption …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even if they have democratic … high corruption levels. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt offcials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative … positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …

In many developing and transition countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption. This is surprising from a … political economy perspective, as the majority of people in a corrupt country suffer from high corruption levels. Our model is …, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more voters are part of the corrupt system …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …