towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty …

effect is strengthened in countries with lower level of public sector corruption and better functioning legal systems …

Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and … zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of … parties were responsible for the construction of the shoddy buildings, and for the corruption and mismanagement related to …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

The focus of this paper is on improving governance through the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in …

We study the eÞect of international financial integration on economic development when the quality of governance may be … compromised by corruption. Our analysis is based on a dynamic general equilibrium model of a small economy in which growth is … driven by capital accumulation and public policy is administered by government appointed bureaucrats. Corruption may arise …

social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …