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

impact economic behavior and sheds light on the behavioral mechanisms underlying "rule legitimacy". …

Conventional wisdom maintains that the Chinese Communist Party is upheld by performance-based legitimacy. Yet what … about procedural legitimacy? Analyzing national survey data on China, this study finds that governance procedures affect the … legitimacy of subnational levels of governing, if not necessarily that of the national level. Good governance contributes to …

public institutions, or incidence of corruption in governmental bodies. The paper contributes to this body of scholarship by … paper inquires whether the greater socioeconomic development experienced by Chile was actually related to greater legitimacy … of the law, higher levels of trust in public institutions, lower perceived levels of corruption, and greater …

corruption, may affect the access to credit for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Using a sample of 68 …-2014, we investigate whether the level of corruption affects their demand for bank loans. Overall, we find that the degree of … corruption seems to play a role in the applications for bank loans when small firms are under investigation. Interestingly …

This paper adds to the recent literature on firm-level corruption by relying on rich data including detailed … large and significant positive association between corruption and firm performance. We further show that the type of bribe …