We wondered how corruption, endemic in Nigeria, is experienced by a specific and understudied set of actors …—entrepreneurs. Semi-structured interviews with founders/CEOs of firms in three industries associated with high levels of corruption … relations to deliberately subvert formal state budgetary systems. While reforming institutions is a key focus of anti-corruption …

While extant research has focused on the causes and consequences of corruption at the macro-level, less effort has been … devoted to understanding the micro-foundation of corruption. We argue that poor people are more likely to be victims of …

This paper shows why corruption is especially difficult to detect under China’s system of decentralized authoritarian … discretion over which laws to implement. A relative standard for corruption consequently arises since non-implementation of laws …

remittances to GDP leads to lower indices of control of corruption, government effectiveness, and rule of law, even after …

This paper compares corruption in China over the past 15years with corruption in the US between 1870 and 1930, periods … that are roughly comparable in terms of real income per capita. Corruption indicators for both countries and both periods … are constructed by tracking corruption news in prominent US newspapers. Several robustness checks confirm the reliability …

We analyze how corruption affects incentives to invest or contribute to public goods. We obtain a proxy for corruption … artefactual field experiments. Our main results are that corruption (i) undermines incentives for voluntary contributions to local … also provide weaker evidence that the impact of corruption on investments and contributions to public goods is …

often embezzle funds, so optimal policy should reflect marginal corruption. We analyze marginal corruption in the context of … complaints limits corruption, but consistent with theories of “exit” in which outside options in the private sector limit how …

We examine the effects of subnational variations in corruption and democratization on the location decisions of foreign … corruption and type of political regime in the country of origin of a foreign investor. We find a relationship between attributes … inference is that, in Russian regions with high corruption and with autocratic government, foreign direct investment appears …