Harassment bribes - payments people give in order not to be denied what they are legally entitled to - are common in … conclude discussing the implications for the fight of more harmful forms of corruption …

The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in informal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both 'Corruption Perception Index' and 'ICRG' index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …

the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of … corruption is positively associated with social interaction. Then we empirically verify the theoretical prediction using within … a statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings, therefore, underscore the …

, corruption experiences, gender roles, trust and values to examine the determinants of corruption, this paper goes beyond the …Previous empirical work on corruption has generally been cross-country in nature and focused on utilizing country …-level corruption ratings. By using micro-level data for over 20 European countries that directly measure individual characteristics …

Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. Some aspects of corruption … rigorous systematic research is lacking. This paper considers corruption in higher education in the media, following … corruption across the nations pointing to how exactly they differ and why. Major findings point to the following: some forms of …

Higher education corruption is an emerging sub-field of research that has yet to develop its terminological apparatus … sociology. Accordingly, most of the terminology of higher education corruption is not unique fundamentally but derived from … that may be formulated as higher education corruption. This Glossary presents terminology used in research and discussion …

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 …

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 …

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 …