We present a simple model explaining corruption on geography and climate conditions. We test the model's validity in a … cross-section of 115 countries. Controlling for all other corruption's determinants we find evidence supporting the model …'s predictions. Corruption increases with temperature and declines with precipitation and non-cultivatable land. Corruption also …

A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …

analyse social variables such as unemployment and standard of living, and political variables such as corruption, political … stability, government effectiveness, rule of law and the level of corruption in the migration of citizens. For this purpose, we … migration. The paper does not find a statistically significant influence of the level of corruption on migration. The …

We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2004 survey show … that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the … general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves. However …