enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that …

until 2008 with the experience of Sweden and Iceland. The working hypothesis is that social capital decay can be a precursor …

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

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …

economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality …. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when they come from countries with low differences in corruption with Turkey …. Conversely, FDI flows are negatively affected when there exists a large difference in corruption between the investing country …

for combating corruption, especially in developing countries. …

industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on … perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about …

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

Corruption has been found to be the most severe obstacle to business operations, according to a recent survey of over 3 …,000 firms in Myanmar. This paper sets out to understand the structure of corruption through an econometric analysis of this …) are more likely to find corruption to be an obstacle. A distinct but related question is whether bribes act as 'efficiency …