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. …

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … prediction. Moreover, the effect of democratization on corruption depends on the protection of property rights and income …

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 …

motive. Using clustered OLS regression with fixed effects and interaction terms, I find that there is in fact a "corruption …

In many developing and transition countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption. This is surprising from a … political economy perspective, as the majority of people in a corrupt country suffer from high corruption levels. Our model is …, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more voters are part of the corrupt system …

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …

There is a strong correlation between conflict and corruption throughout the world, a problem that is particularly … acute in Africa. This paper investigates how reducing conflict through peace and reunification affects petty corruption. We …

Although the research linking social media and corruption is still in infancy, it provides important insights. It has … been shown that social media can prove to be an important tool in fighting corruption. At the same time, freedom on the net … media on corruption. It suggests that freedom on the net and the anonymity of net users must be protected if the effects of …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …