prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …

Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …

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

corruption. This study makes use of outcome-equivalent games to examine participants' willingness to engage in these two types of … corruption. The results show people are more likely to undertake bribery than embezzlement, and this is attributed to the joint … decision-making dynamic of bribery, which shapes the responsibility for the outcome of corruption to be shared between the …

enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that …

of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that corruption … is going to decrease because of the efforts of the EU to fight corruption or because of the opening of the markets to …

This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country … States from corruption-ridden countries are more likely to be apprehended than individuals from less corrupt countries are. …

We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …

literature supports this view as it finds a negative link between corruption (secret payments to government officials) and growth …