less corruption, more social welfare and education spending, more open markets, and better functioning government …

This paper explores the empirical association between internet use, e-government and corruption in a large panel of … associated with significantly lower levels of corruption. Controlling for most variables used in previous work on corruption and … that well-designed ICT policies are likely to bring substantial benefits in the fight against corruption. …

Corruption is a significant factor which determines the quality of the “doing business” environment at large. The aim …) does gender matter in corrupt behavior and (2) can corruption be an explanatory factor for gender gaps in firm growth … the impact of corruption on employment growth, we do find a general negative impact of administrative corruption …

This paper compares corruption in China over the past 15years with corruption in the US 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 US newspapers. Several robustness checks confirm the reliability …

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

In this paper we analyze the foundations of corruption perception. Even when we employ the concept of corruption in … this wide concept of corruption. We use data from the module on Citizenship of the 2004 International Social Survey Program … corruption. We conclude that there are significant socio-demographic variables: gender, marital status, religiosity, education …

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 ofneighboring countries, as weighted by the relative joint border length …, affects domestic corruption. Including country fixed effects allows us to control for unobservablecountry specifc aspects and …

corruption and from the institutional corruption literature to assess the impacts of this shadow professorate on the economic …