This paper explores the role of cultural transmission in extortion. Extortion is modeled as an asymmetric contest where … extortion and a fraction of people who take from others. The degree of extortion is decreased when: (1) extortion is less … abstain from extortion are more effective. A key finding is the existence of a complementarity between the effectiveness of …

non-transparent practices and corruption in global trade. Managing the disclosure of information about rules, regulations … bribery. Four different strategies are explained based on the different scenarios of transparency in international trade. The …

The aim of this research was to examine how organizational and individual factors, in concert, shape corruption. We … examined whether the ethical climate of organizations is related to corruption, and if so, whether it affects corruption … through individual motives for corruption. A large-scale questionnaire study was conducted among public officials (n = 234 …

show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among …Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …

The paper uses a gravity trade model to examine the impact of corruption on bilateral trade using a data set comprising … OECD economies, new EU members and developing nations. Although the level of corruption of both the importing and exporting …

'administrative corruption', whereby firms engage in corrupt practices and bribery of government officials. We contrast the firm …This article investigates the relationship between corruption and firm performance in Greece using firm level data …. Corruption is overall negatively associated with firm size and growth at the firm level. We focus on the effect of …

, poverty, political instability and corruption should be addressed to control the issue of migration. …