with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

This paper re-examines the contribution of five major corruption determinants emphasized by the literature, through an … empirical analysis based on a hierarchical modelling of firm-level corruption data. Exploiting a baseline sample of 34,358 bribe … the literature on other corruption determinants, but point that the contribution of corruption determinants is context-dependent. …

This paper compares corruption in China over the past 15 years with corruption in the U.S. between 1870 and 1930 …, periods that are roughly comparable in terms of real income per capita. Corruption indicators for both countries and both … periods are constructed by tracking corruption news in prominent U.S. newspapers. Several robustness checks confirm the …

Is corruption capable of spreading across national borders? This paper uses panel data for 120 countries from 1995 to … 2012 to evaluate whether the corruption levels of neighboring countries, as weighted by the relative joint border length …, affects domestic corruption. Including country fixed effects allows us to control for unobservable country specific aspects …

The paper considers the relationship of corruption and domestic business environment. The authors propose a method of … quantitative estimation of the impact of corruption on the business climate through the use of international ratings. The … corruption, and estimate, with its help, the comparative advantages of Russia as of late 2012. In addition the paper determines …