option. The paper confirms a direct relationship between three independent variables (life expectancy, corruption perception … study demonstrated that a decrease in the dimension of corruption leads to an increase in the human development, since the … growth of corruption perception index is associated with a fall in the corruption dimension. On the other hand, an inverse …

This article addresses the mediating effect of corruption on the influence of stringency of environmental regulation on …) across European Union countries from 1995 to 2011, we unveil a direct and an interacting effect of countries' corruption and …, thus supporting a crowding-out effect of mandatory regulation on voluntary action. Second, increased corruption reduces the …

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 …