We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …

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

This analysis investigates a political corruption model that builds on previous literature on corruption in hierarchies …. Our study enriches the literature on political corruption emphasizing the contrasting role of the minorities having a … involved into the illicit activity and, eventually, spread the corruption disease. …

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and the composition of public expenditures. First, I derive a … theoretical model that links the degree of corruption in a country - to be understood as the prevailing culture of corruption - to … corruption. This distortion occurs at the expense of spending categories that do not involve public procurement (social …

predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers …

We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …