This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity … be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative … effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it …

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

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …

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. …

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 …

The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or … two latent variables - extracts information on various dimensions of corruption and the shadow economy to contribute to … corruption. The results show that the shadow economy influences corruption more than corruption influences the shadow economy. …

We present a simple model explaining corruption on geography and climate conditions. We test the model's validity in a … cross-section of 115 countries. Controlling for all other corruption's determinants we find evidence supporting the model …'s predictions. Corruption increases with temperature and declines with precipitation and non-cultivatable land. Corruption also …

A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …