Cross-national empirical studies of corruption commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in … economic and public life suffer less corruption. This finding has been controversial in that measures of women's participation … an instrumental variable towards estimating the true causal effect of gender upon corruption. The ensuing estimates …

In this paper, we study the evolution of corruption patterns in 27 postcommunist countries during the period 1996 …-2012 using the Control of Corruption Index and the corruption category Markov transition probability matrix. This method allows … us to generate the long-run distribution of corruption among the post-communist countries. Our empirical findings suggest …

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … the gap. We identify conditions under which economic reform in the formal segment will increase the rate of corruption or … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …

Corruption at the border distorts resource allocation, undermines the level playing field for businesses, hampers the … policies could potentially reduce the incentives and the opportunities for corruption. This paper explores potential … determinants of border-related corruption and trade facilitation policies most likely to address it. Countries with higher …

resultant prosperity. We also emphasize that enforcing regulations is a complex task given corruption, informal markets, and the …

The existence of ambiguity in the study of the impact of corruption on economic growth, namely the grease the wheel … hypothesis and sand the wheel hypothesis, trigger this research to look at the impact of corruption through another perspective …, i.e. income inequality. This study identifies the mutual influence between corruption and income inequality in Asian …

economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies …