With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …

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 …

This paper examines the issue of controlling fiscal corruption by providing incentives to fiscal officers. First, a … case study of a successful attack on corruption is presented that shows the importance of attending to the conditions of … consistency with optimization behavior. It confirms that simply providing bonuses is not enough. Corruption at higher levels of …

bribes in monetary terms and firms that report them as a percent of sales, and the sensitivity of the corruption question … bribes when they report them in percentage terms. If this is the case, petty corruption might be far less costly than the raw …Recent firm-level surveys suggest that petty corruption is a serious problem for African firms, costing the average …

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no “objective” measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate … corruption-control. On the other hand, in the absence such impunity from corruption, political instability further fuels … corruption. Our findings validate both hypotheses. Hence, contrary to a stream of the literature, we establish causal evidence of …

Siemens paid bribes to managers of OTE, to senior politicians and to political parties in order to obtain procurement … Comverse also paid bribes to OTE managers for procurement contracts. An investigative committee of the Greek Parliament looked …

The topic of corruption has recently attracted a great deal of attention, yet there is still a lack of micro level … empirical evidence regarding the determinants of corruption. Furthermore, the present literature has not investigated the … effects of political interest on corruption despite the interesting potential of this link. We address these deficiencies by …

Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse bureaucratic corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less … corruption is significantly associated with hiding output …

prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …