limitation of an earlier work which claims cultural norms to be the significant determinant of corruption. We show that after … infrastructure in a country, the effect of culture on corruption becomes insignificant. However, the Country Corruption index and the … Government Effectiveness index are strongly correlated which makes it difficult to identify the causal determinant of corruption …

waste and reports it to a regulator. The inspector may engage in three forms of corruption – bribery, extortion and framing … with the earlier literature on corruption, we show that not only bribery but also extortion and framing may occur in … equilibrium, even when all the forms of corruption could be deterred. We also find that higher costs of engaging in corruption may …

Abstract It is shown how corruption in the management of environmental resources can give rise to a comparative … corruption responds endogenously to the over-exploitation of resources, it is possible for international trade to generate forces … that improve resource management by reducing corruption. Therefore, in this case trade could provide gains in addition to …

Abstract The paper shows that corruption at the federal level may be contagious for regional governments suggesting … that federal structure of the government may be one of the reasons for persistence of corruption. The analysis reveals that … independent levels of capture of the central and regional governments the present paper endogenizes the incidence of corruption in …

. Hence, full-corruption is the unique equilibrium. Furthermore, the value of entry is always negative for the marginal firm …. Hence, there will be no entry. If firms are offered sufficiently high rewards for reporting, corruption could be eliminated …. However, a reward high enough to uproot corruption would lead to false accusations. Thus, rewarding could help reduce …

effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government … particular, in countries where corruption is more prevalent and the legal framework is weaker, bribery is more harmful for firm …

universities. The perceived level of corruption, personal attitudes towards corruption, academic attainment, and the rank of a …

their specific attitudes regarding the acceptance of corruption. The dataset on which our study is based was collected by … individual attitudes towards corruption and religion are associated given certain societal and institutional contexts. Our … corruption on the individual level, this effect is small. We find that there is a threshold value of religiosity below which …

Summary Much hope is put into the ‘‘four eyes principle’’ as an anti corruption device in many countries. However, as … investigation of individual versus group decision making in a corruption experiment. We find that the group decisions, as compared … to individual decisions, lead to a higher level of corruption, for bribers and for bribees, and in China as well as in …