It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is … experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices …, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different …

Corruption is a problem that has been shown to adversely affect a country’s development. Recent studies have shown that … a country’s electoral system can affect its corruption level. But if that is the case, then electoral rules could be … chosen to maximize opportunities for corruption. This paper uses the recent wave of democratization and the resulting writing …

This paper analyzes how corruption affects the composition of public expenditures. First, a two-stage rent …-seeking model with endogenous rent-setting is derived that captures both "political corruption" and "bureaucratic corruption". The … levels of corruption. The significance of these distortions is robust to a variety of specifications such as fixed effects …

We study the effect of decentralization on corruption in a political agency model from the perspective of a region. In … a model where corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time, decentralization makes it … corruption is conditional on political competition: decentralization is associated with lower (higher) levels of corruption for …

Bureaucracy and corruption represent major causes of fiscal crises, and structural unemployment all over the world … in the future. Corruption is growing in a changing global environment and is considered one of the most important … geopolitical risks. Most of the time, corruption is associated with fraud and money laundering. European growing cities and public …

Democracy and media freedom have been suggested as useful tools in the fight against political corruption, but so far … corruption-reducing effect of democracy becomes stronger as media freedom increases. Using panel data covering the period 1980 … democracy and media freedom in the fight against corruption is also supported by Indian state level data.  …

to explore the impact of a country’s political environment on its level of corruption. The study provides strong evidence … urbanization are associated with a lower level of public sector corruption across all 121 countries. The colonial dummies and …

Democracy and media freedom have been suggested as useful tools in the ?ght against political corruption, but so far … corruption-reducing e?ect of democracy becomes stronger as media freedom increases. Using panel data covering the period 1980 … democracy and media freedom in the ?ght against corruption is also supported by Indian state level data. …

Many variables have been proposed by past studies as significant determinants of corruption. This paper asks if their … estimated impact on corruption is robust to alteration of the information set. A Global Sensitivity Analysis, based on the … Leamer`s Extreme-Bounds Analysis give a clear answer: five variables are robustly related to corruption. Corruption is lower …