Corruption represents one of the major causes of poverty all over the world and European Union is fighting against it …. In the last few years, the corruption phenomenon registered a high level in some European countries and became one of the … structural unemployment or underemployment (WEF-Global Risk Report 2015, p. 14). One of the modalities in combating corruption is …

power with potentially harmful (corruption) ramifications. Within a voters-politician interaction framework, we unravel … that term limits increase the frequency of corruption incidents but reduce the expected cost per incident. The corruption … reducing corruption are discussed …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …

Perceived corruption in the public sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of … Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes around 100 democracies over the period 2012-2016, a sample for which the CPI is … than in other years, indicating that perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is …

I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …

This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both … government size and public investment have significant positive effects on corruption, while fiscal decentralization, citizen …

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 …

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and the composition of public expenditures. First, I derive a … theoretical model that links the degree of corruption in a country - to be understood as the prevailing culture of corruption - to … corruption. This distortion occurs at the expense of spending categories that do not involve public procurement (social …

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.  …