This paper provides a within-country analysis of the impact of corruption on economic growth using a panel of Italian … regions from 1968 to 2011 through a robust measure of corruption. This measure is averaged over 5-year periods to reduce short …-run fluctuations and to reduce probable delayed effects, which are typical for latent phenomena such as corruption. The results show a …

punishment threats. We find that punishment coupled with monitoring was effective in reducing corruption. Estimating the … heterogeneous impact for students of different ability, poverty status, and gender, we show that fighting corruption led to …

In this paper we explore relationships between corruption perceptions and such characteristics as the size of shadow … countries. It is shown that irrespective of whether the economy is developed or transitional, negative dependence of corruption … the shadow economy passes 45%, the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index ceases to respond to growth of …

This study empirically explores the relationship between corruption and the quality of political management in … corruption, ‘grease the wheels’ and ‘sand in the wheels’, argued in the literature to determine if a nonlinear … relationship exists between corruption and the quality of political management. Using a cross-country data set of 114 countries …

mainly its relationship to corruption namely the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) be re-addressed. The objective of the … effect of corruption reduction on GEDI and thus the positive relationship between an intangible good that is entrepreneurship … and an intangible bad that is corruption. These results confirm that the recent available data are supportive of anti-corruption …

economic meanings and not that are questioned as possible obstacles, there is always a particular one: corruption. It is well … known that the presence of corruption, mainly in the public area, involves a number of negative effects, both direct and … of corruption in Italy, highlighting the results from recent studies and research carried out at international and …

at favoring universalism may provide an effective tool in the fight against corruption. …