This paper investigates how corruption affects firm behavior. Using an original and unusually rich dataset on bribe … payments at ports matched to firm-level data, we observe how firms adapt to different types of corruption by adjusting their … transport strategies. Our results suggest that firms respond to the price effects of corruption, organizing production in a way …

Acemoglu and Verdier (AER, 2000), that consider corruption like a necessary by-product of the public intervention in the …. 500 /1999 of the Italian Supreme Court on corruption involve two different analyses. The first, based on the official data …

objective measure of corruption based on the distribution of “beautiful” registration numbers. This article reviews their study … the absence of corruption, the “beautiful” registration numbers will be distributed normally regardless of automobile … brands. In the presence of corruption, however, the “beautiful” registration numbers will be concentrated across luxury …

candidates who they think are corrupt. Their main finding is that corruption in public office is effectively punished by voters …. Given the well-known issues with adequately measuring corruption, this note examines the sensitivity of extant findings to … an alternate corruption measure. We fail to find a statistically robust effect of corruption on electoral outcomes. …

obligations by officials and their relatives. It considers history of the introduction of anti-corruption declarations in Russia … we should not put the main functions in the field of anti-corruption declarations on the personnel services. It is … of anti-corruption declaration in Russia", made in the Scientific Research University, High School of Economics. It also …

possible links between corruption and economic growth. Even though we find negative correlations between corruption and other … between corruption and economic growth. Our results are similar to previous empirical findings and seem to be another …

The article studies dependence between the level of corruption and volume of direct foreign investment a country can … enjoy. Upon testing several hypothesis (the basic - there is a correlation between the level of corruption and volume of … direct foreign investments in the same year; and additional assumptions - there is a time lag between the level of corruption …

of capital market modernization and corruption to explain the widely varying GDP growth figures for each time frame and …