This paper investigates the relationship between corruption and development. By a study of the determinants of the … phenomenon as well as its implications on growth, this paper address the corruption challenge faced by governments and … not entirely clear, it is however without debate to say that development is necessarily linked with anti-corruption …

prosecuted for corruption as an unexpected consequence of an ordinary investigation in 2004. This event exposed a significant … amount of corruption and resulted in a substantial anti-corruption initiative within the Heilongjiang province. We use the … this massive anti-corruption initiative is an important finding …

social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …

We provide a theory of how growth, corruption, and a low-powered public-sector pay scale coexist in a stable … widespread corruption. …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the relationship between corruption and productive entrepreneurship …, it proposes worldwide empirical evidence that countries with high levels of corruption usually face low levels of … than in developing countries. Third, the paper explores whether the negative effect of corruption depends on country …

This paper examines whether corruption can be an efficiency enhancing adaptation to poor institutional environments …. Prior research on this question has not taken into account the heterogeneity of corruption or the possibility that petty … bureaucratic corruption in the form of bribery may grease the wheels of an economy at the same time that grand political corruption …

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between ethnic fractionalization, corruption and the growth rate of a … country. We provide a simple theoretical model. We show that a nonlinear relationship between fractionalization and corruption … exists: corruption is high in homogeneous or very fragmented countries, but low where fractionalization is intermediate. In …

Corruption supposedly reduces economic development by creating an uncertain contracting environment and by preventing … the state from efficiently providing public goods and correcting externalities. However, corruption can be efficiency …-enhancing in countries with relatively little economic freedom. Corruption in the military appears to reduce economic growth, while …

Using data on 434 Brazilian municipalities, this paper estimates the effect of both corruption and the size of the … effect of corruption is insignificant. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in the size of the informal sector is …