Should state regulatory involvement in the economy necessarily generate corruption? While excessive regulatory burden … is often treated as a cause of corruption, this paper argues otherwise. It distinguishes regulatory policy, or de jure … regulations and bureaucratic corruption. The analysis of business survey data covering 25 post-communist economies demonstrates …

This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. Independent of the econometric methodology applied, we … consistently find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country’s corruption level …

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption’s predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody’s life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of existing literature on corruption and …

We examine the influence of corruption on migration for 111 countries between 1985 and 2000. Robust evidence indicates … that corruption is among the push factors of migration, especially fueling skilled migration. We argue that corruption …

corruption if it fails to sever the official—firm connection. The process of privatization, moreover, is notorious for causing … corruption. It is up to observation to determine the exact effect of privatizations on corruption. This article attempts to make … the nineties. Results suggest that higher privatization leads to an increase in corruption. …

We study extortion bribe or harassment bribe as a mode of corruption in this article. Corruption is modelled as a … the pay-offs of the agents in this game. We find the necessary conditions to make corruption as an Evolutionarily Stable … Strategy against Multiple Mutations (ESSMM) in a game where players have both corruption and honesty as their strategies. ESSMM …

with an institutional and evolutionary emphasis — to the topic of corruption as a global, regional, and national phenomenon …. I start with the principle of historical specificity, where the known history of corruption processes and concepts are … examined. I follow the evolution of the corruption discourse, starting with the classical scholars of ancient Greece and …

This article examines the effect of state level corruption on state beer taxes in the United States. Our lobby group … model predicts that corruption reduces the beer tax, but this effect is conditional on the level of alcohol-related vehicle … deaths. Using a panel of state level data from 1982 to 2001, we find that increased corruption is associated with lower state …

and corruption. The theoretical analysis demonstrates that decentralization exerts both a direct and an indirect impact on … the shadow economy and corruption. Firstly, decentralization helps to mitigate government-induced distortions, thus … limiting the extent of corruption and the informal sector in a direct way. Secondly, in more decentralized systems, individuals …