with an institutional and evolutionary emphasis — to the topic of corruption as a global, regional, and national phenomenon …. I start with the principle of historical specificity, where the known history of corruption processes and concepts are … examined. I follow the evolution of the corruption discourse, starting with the classical scholars of ancient Greece and …

This article examines the effect of state level corruption on state beer taxes in the United States. Our lobby group … model predicts that corruption reduces the beer tax, but this effect is conditional on the level of alcohol-related vehicle … deaths. Using a panel of state level data from 1982 to 2001, we find that increased corruption is associated with lower state …

and corruption. The theoretical analysis demonstrates that decentralization exerts both a direct and an indirect impact on … the shadow economy and corruption. Firstly, decentralization helps to mitigate government-induced distortions, thus … limiting the extent of corruption and the informal sector in a direct way. Secondly, in more decentralized systems, individuals …

Previous studies on the effect of government size on corruption have produced mixed results. In an attempt to explain … these ambiguous results, this study investigates the effect of government size on corruption by taking into account the role … indicate that an increase in government size can lead to a decrease in corruption if the democracy level is sufficiently high …

We study the effects of the availability of information about corruption scandals on electoral outcomes. The paper uses … a novel and rich database with information on corruption scandals that affected Spanish local governments during the …'s vote loss after a corruption scandal can rise to 14% when we consider cases in which the incumbent has been charged with …

measure of corruption, our chosen proxy for cronyism, explains a substantial fraction of the inefficiency. This result … countries may well be to fight corruption and increase transparency in labour access. …

This research draws on a unique, large dataset of individuals in Croatia regarding their corruption experiences to …

the impact of corruption on environmental degradation in this region. The Fixed Effect results confirm the existence of … the regional EKC in these countries. Furthermore, the results indicate that corruption do affect environment in the manner … that it delays the turning point in EKC. It is found that, in the presence of corruption, the per capita GDP at the turning …

Perception surveys remain an important tool to measure corruption. However, most existing perception surveys only … analyze corruption at the national or international level, and do not provide information about corruption at local levels …. But it is corruption in local areas that really influences the everyday life of ordinary people. In order to redress this …

We analyze the effects of corruption and institutional quality on the quality of business regulation. Our key findings … indicate that corruption negatively affects the quality of regulation and that general institutional quality is insignificant … once corruption is controlled for. These findings hold over a number of specifications which include additional exogenous …