The ‘Four-Eyes-Principle’ is considered as one of the most potent measures against corruption although it lacks both … theoretical and empirical justification. We show in a laboratory experiment using a standard corruption game that introducing the …

Corruption, evasion and the abuse of power (and the possibility thereof) are pervasive features of economic activity. A …

corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and a?ects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative e …?ectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. Recent research has shown that … perceived corruption might not be a good indicator of actual corruption in a country. In this paper, we employ a structural …

Extant literature on FDI entry modes and corruption tend to convey the idea that corruption leads to the choice of low … contact with corrupt state officials. Recently, however, Demirbag et al. (2010) argument that, despite corruption, linguistic … (Mozambique, São Tome and Principe) and middle (Cape Verde) levels of corruption, and that maintain quite close linguistic and …

remittances to GDP leads to lower indices of control of corruption, government effectiveness, and rule of law, even after …

the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of … corruption is positively associated with social interaction. Then we empirically verify the theoretical prediction using within … a statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings, therefore, underscore the …