determinants of corruption in Italy in the period 1963-2001 using statistics on crimes against the public administration at a … affect corruption in Italy …Several measures indicate the presence of substantial corruption in Italian society. This paper investigates the …

We investigate the relationship between corruption and economic performance, focusing on the historical roots of the … social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … empirically test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying …

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess mortality and a …

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess mortality and a …

Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social … capita from mid-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess …

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems. …

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems. …