Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in … business operations on bribe solicitations. Contestability undermines bureaucratic rent-seeking potential and this paper tries … to capture this empirically using cross-country survey data. Results show that the relatively greater contestability of …

of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that corruption … is going to decrease because of the efforts of the EU to fight corruption or because of the opening of the markets to …

We study the optimal design of regulation for innovative activities which can have negative social repercussions. We … authorization and strict authorization. We find that corruption plays a critical role in the choice of the authorization regime …. Corruption exacerbates the costs of using lenient authorization, under which production of socially harmful goods is always …

We study the optimal design of regulation for innovative activities which can have negative social repercussions. We … authorization and strict authorization. We find that corruption plays a critical role in the choice of the authorization regime …. Corruption exacerbates the costs of using lenient authorization, under which production of socially harmful goods is always …

Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In … this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall … intensive and the extensive margin. Second, bribery discourages initially high contributors, who gradually decrease their …

We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …

We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …

enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that …

industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on … perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about …

Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. The present paper investigates …