resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world - Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings … income but increased the income share from unidentified sources traditionally associated with corruption. These effects of …

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …

less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is … that is lower by 10 pp. In addition, Google Trends data show that public interest in corruption is correlated with interest … in vaccination. The insight from our analysis is that corruption affects not only the supply but also the demand for …

This study investigates the individual impact of credit information sharing and corruption as well as their interaction … reduce the negative effects of corruption on financial sector development, but PCR tends to be more effective, suggesting …, including the use of an alternative corruption indicator and sub-sample analysis. Finally, policy implications are discussed. …

public corruption to explain the significant cause of cross-country variation in immunization progress. We suggest that … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …