reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. … interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … is affected by economic reforms targeted for the formal sector is rarely discussed in the literature. This paper fills …

corruption being prominent among them. In part 4 we set up and quantify a model to analyze the interrelationships among the … consumption and the level of corruption. We also demonstrate that the concealed consumption share plays an important role in the … on this specific part of the hidden economy. -- Hidden economy ; labor market ; taxation ; corruption …

reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously … interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … is affected by economic reforms targeted for the formal sector is rarely discussed in the literature. This paper fills …

determinants such as: corruption, regulation and bureaucracy, quality of public and government services, detection probability …

revolving door process involving the 20 biggest US commercial banks. We show that regulators who have created a large stock of …

institutional reforms to address political patronage and influence peddling would go a long way into addressing systemic corruption …This paper investigates whether corruption has contributed to the rise of the shadow economy in Uganda. Using … between corruption and the size of the shadow economy in both the long- and short-run. Additionally, the causality results …

The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables specific to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980 …

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

informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …

. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption … proxy is measured as a decreasing function of corruption such that higher levels of the corruption proxy translate lower …