Two types of political conflicts of interest pervade many of the world's societies. A horizontal conflict of interest … arises when different constituencies support different policies, while a vertical conflict of interest emerges when those in … predictions using two experiments. In both cases we find support for the proposition that more intense horizontal conflict leads …

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …

How does corruption in Central and Eastern Europe hurt economic growth? The paper explains theoretical framework that … is applied to the problem of corruption and reveals its application difficulties. Corruption may be understood as the … corrupt behaviour. Within comparison of both agency theory and rent-seeking we argue that corruption in general is the problem …

Corruption, particularly political or quot;grandquot; corruption, distorts the entire decision-making process connected … presented shows that higher corruption is associated with (i) higher public investment; (ii) lower government revenues; (iii … that corruption increases public investment while reducing its productivity. These are five channels through which …

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 …

Corruption has causal impacts on economic and social development indicators. The discussion on this issue is widely … system. The objective of this study is to analyze the causality of corruption, poverty, and economic growth among ASEAN … results show that statistically, both of economic development indicators have a significant effect to corruption, while each …

In this paper, I study how anti-corruption shocks affect Chinese city leaders through political factions or social … investigated for corruption affects the city leaders' economic performances and policy outcomes. I find that college and workplace … evidence supports the explanation that the corruption investigation of officials initiates promotion competition inside the …