common features may be corruption and academic misconduct that can often bee seen in universities. The increasing scale and … scope of corruption in higher education in the former Soviet Bloc as well as numerous other countries urges a better … understanding of the problem within the context of socio-economic transformations. Corruption in higher education is deeply rooted …

A number of recent studies have, separately, addressed the effects of public sector corruption and natural disasters …. In this paper, we intersect these lines of research to assess whether corruption in the public sector plays a role in the … account the endogenous nature of corruption and controls for a number of other factors such as earthquake frequency, magnitude …

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …

, the paper goes beyond previous studies investigating also the impact of geographic identification, corruption and … globalization. We find that a higher level of (perceived) corruption reduces the trust in the UN in developed countries, but …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

show that thanks to debt and/or R&D the poverty trap may be avoided. Second, we introduce a distorsion : corruption which …

In recent years the topics of illegal activities such as corruption or tax evasion have attracted a great deal of …