Analyzing law enforcement data on corruption incidents for a panel of 79 Russian regions for the period 2004-2007, we … find that the relative salaries of bureaucrats determine corruption levels: Corruption declines as relative salaries rise … up to a turning point, beyond which corruption rises again. Other important determinants are the strength of law …

This paper investigates the causal relationship between corruption and fixed capital investment in Russian regions. The … panel data on corruption allow to control for unobserved heterogeneity with fixed effects estimation. We address the problem … of endogeneity by introducing novel instrumental variables for corruption: the presence of free press and violations of …

Analyzing law enforcement data on corruption incidents for a panel of 79 Russian regions for the period 2004-2007, we … find that the relative salaries of bureaucrats determine corruption levels: Corruption declines as relative salaries rise … up to a turning point, beyond which corruption rises again. Other important determinants are the strength of law …

Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual … enforcement to combat corruption by increasing enforcement employment is ineffective, rather comprehensive improvements in …

about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political … and economic crises to assess what we can learn from the long-term effects of past crises on corruption. We hypothesize … corruption. We test our hypotheses using panel data for over 100 countries during the years 1800- 2020. The results suggest …

Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Scholars making economic policy recommendations to resolve corruption … accepting corruption operate, as well as explaining the importance of the agents for the survival of their environment. The rent … from the early period of transition in the Czech and Slovak Republics to support the implication that the corruption …

Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Classical political economists argue that corruption undermines the rule of … law (Smith 2001, chap 5). The modern Public Choice proponents argue that corruption and lobbying might influence the … efficiency of the rule of law. While Chicago Public Choice scholars model how legal lobbying, which is corruption in Virginia …

Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Classical political economists argue that corruption undermines the rule of … law (Smith 2001, chap 5). The modern Public Choice proponents argue that corruption might influence the efficiency of the … rule of law. While Chicago Public Choice scholars model how corruption improves efficiency of the rule of law and thus the …

Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Classical political economists argue that corruption undermines the rule of … law (Smith 2001, chap 5). The modern Public Choice proponents argue that corruption might influence the efficiency of the … rule of law. While Chicago Public Choice scholars model how corruption improves efficiency of the rule of law and thus the …