Previous studies on the effect of government size on corruption have produced mixed results. In an attempt to explain … these ambiguous results, this study investigates the effect of government size on corruption by taking into account the role … indicate that an increase in government size can lead to a decrease in corruption if the democracy level is sufficiently high …

We study the effects of the availability of information about corruption scandals on electoral outcomes. The paper uses … a novel and rich database with information on corruption scandals that affected Spanish local governments during the …'s vote loss after a corruption scandal can rise to 14% when we consider cases in which the incumbent has been charged with …

measure of corruption, our chosen proxy for cronyism, explains a substantial fraction of the inefficiency. This result … countries may well be to fight corruption and increase transparency in labour access. …

This research draws on a unique, large dataset of individuals in Croatia regarding their corruption experiences to …

the impact of corruption on environmental degradation in this region. The Fixed Effect results confirm the existence of … the regional EKC in these countries. Furthermore, the results indicate that corruption do affect environment in the manner … that it delays the turning point in EKC. It is found that, in the presence of corruption, the per capita GDP at the turning …

Perception surveys remain an important tool to measure corruption. However, most existing perception surveys only … analyze corruption at the national or international level, and do not provide information about corruption at local levels …. But it is corruption in local areas that really influences the everyday life of ordinary people. In order to redress this …

We analyze the effects of corruption and institutional quality on the quality of business regulation. Our key findings … indicate that corruption negatively affects the quality of regulation and that general institutional quality is insignificant … once corruption is controlled for. These findings hold over a number of specifications which include additional exogenous …

of corruption, we first present an interaction-based model which predicts that the level of corruption is positively … statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings therefore underscore the relevance of … social interaction in understanding corruption and point to important policy implications. …

mechanisms. Notably, studies show that natural resources lead to institutional degradation, corruption, inequality, and civil war … institutions, corruption, inequality and/or civil war. Importantly, the relationship between corruption and trust turns out to be … non-linear, indicating that the effect of natural resources on trust depends on the initial corruption level of a country …

There is a view in the literature that curbing corruption is concurrently growth augmenting. We present evidence that … such is not always the case: independent of its indirect effects, a drop in corruption is growth augmenting only if there … has been a persistent decline in corruption in the past. …