Using price discounts government officials receive when buying new housing units as a measure of corruption in China …, we examine the effect of the anti-corruption campaign launched by the Xi Jinping administration in 2012. We find that the … the anti-corruption campaign is effective in curbing corruption …

This paper investigates whether the costs of corruption are conditional on the extent of government intervention in the … economy. We use data on corruption convictions and economic growth between 1975 and 2007 across the U.S. states to test this … evidence for the "weak" form of the grease-the-wheels hypothesis. While corruption is never good for growth, its harmful …

The social importance of corruption and its complex nature have led management scholars to study the phenomenon … provide a critical review of the anthropological literature on corruption in relation to the management science research …. Anthropology offers valuable insights into the understanding of the study of corruption. The field provides new perspectives …

In this paper we study the impact of multi-way means of communication on corruption by exploring the relationship … between social media and corruption. Our cross-country analysis of over 150 countries shows that Facebook penetration (a proxy … for social media) has a negative and economically sizable impact on corruption. Using a novel dataset on technological …

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 …

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices … are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication of how much economic loss is attributed to corruption. Arguably …

Corruption is a function of its return relative to engaging in productive activities. This paper presents an approach … for thinking about the institutional features of societies and the resulting amount of corruption. The empirical results …-seeking view of the relation between government and corruption is rejected in favor of the Becker (1983) model of political …

We report an intriguing empirical observation. The relationship between corruption and output depends on the economy …'s degree of openness: in open economies, corruption and GNP per capita are strongly negatively correlated, but in closed … to poor countries, and if we allow for the possible endogeneity of both the corruption and openness measures. We find …