corruption in administrations. In our model, entrepreneurs must comply with regulation before undertaking a risky activity …

Systemic (but lawful) political corruption reduces well-being and equity in America. Madisonian democracy is no longer … capable of containing such corruption. Proposals currently on the table to stem corruption are unlikely to be effective …

Corruption defined as the misuse of public power for personal gains is a forefront issue around the world, especially … in developing countries. This paper mainly assumes that corruption has negative effects on government revenues both in … results, in general, confirm the hypotheses we assume except for those associate corruption with income tax revenues (INCTR …

corruption. The empirical analysis relies on objective measures of zoning corruption at the regional level from 2003 through 2008 … for Greece, which are novel to the literature, and media reports of zoning corruption scandals for Spain. Adjusting for … positive and significant relationship between housing prices and zoning corruption. Our findings are robust to a series of …

Corruption has become an increasingly salient issue in India today, spawning both enormous interest from the media as … policy options under discussion, and the actual evidence base drawn from empirical research on corruption. We attempt to … bridge this gap, directly addressing the particular challenges that corruption in India poses. Academic evidence supports the …

This paper analyzes the relationship between discretion of public spending and corruption in answering to the following … research question: tighter procurement rules, as a proxy to discretion in spending, result in lower prevalence of corruption in … higher corruption prevalence to most cutoffs of Law 8.666/93 in both purchases and works subgroups …

primary data on firm behavior and bribe payments suggest that corruption is a potential explanation for the observed low … elasticities. In contexts of pervasive corruption, even small bribes can significantly reduce tariffs, making tariff liberalization …

legal corrupt practices. At the beginning, the concept of corruption under the Act on the Central Anticorruption Bureau was … work, the characteristic features of corruption were presented and discussed. At this point was emphasized the importance … of corruption for the system of power and the functioning so-called closed systems. Then was made an attempt to indicate …

such as visibility, governance and shareholding play a significant role in affecting a firm's corruption risk. The results …Anecdotal evidence indicates that corruption is rampant in the defence sector globally. Using a unique database on firm … level corruption risk in the defence industry, we examine the role of country level and firm level antecedents. Among the …

This paper studies the effect of digitalization on the perception of corruption and trust in tax officials in Africa … digital adoption is associated with a reduction in the perception of corruption and an increase in trust in tax officials … the use of Internet on the perception of corruption. Yet, the paper shows that the dampening effect of digitalization on …