This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2004 survey show … that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the … general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves. However …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials. …

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials. …

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional … level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher … heterogeneity, regulation, abundance of resource and state-owned enterprises substantially breed regional corruption. Moreover …

With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …