Although corruption has attracted researchers' attention for more than 30 years, it remains one of the most significant … political challenges all countries face. Even though corruption measures have improved, they lack reliability and clarity. Two … aspects of corruption are examined in this paper: a) its measurement and b) its effects on the economic performance of 83 …

The Arab Spring has led to very different outcomes across the Arab world. I present a highly stylized model of the Arab …. -- Arab Spring ; political transitions ; repression ; civil conflict ; oil ; divided societies …

This study assess the effect of corruption on the occurrence of banking crisis for a sample of 38 countries over the … period 2000 – 2017. We consider both the direct and the indirect channels through which corruption might affect the … occurrence of banking crisis. We also check using a threshold regression approach for the existence of a corruption threshold …

present, countries with weaker corruption control experience a lower spread of conflict. Consistent with the “grease the …The literature examining the effect of institutions on the spread of conflict remains scarce despite 100 civilians … of institutions on the spread of conflict in 190 countries from 2000 to 2016. We find that a better rule of law lowers …

This paper empirically examines the impact of corruption on FDI in European Union countries, including candidate …, we find that corruption has a negative impact on FDI. -- FDI ; Corruption ; Efficient Grease Hypothesis ; OLS …

In this paper, we argue that the answer to the question of whether the impact of corruption on development is … 22 economies in Sub-Sahara Africa with the most recent dataset (1996-2013) from the World Bank and other reputable … corruption, we are able to point out that institutions play important role in insulating citizens against the devastation caused …

This paper discusses the possible causes and consequences of corruption. It provides a synthetic review of recent … studies that analyze this phenomenon empirically. In addition, it presents further results on the effects of corruption on … growth and investment, and new cross-country evidence on the link between corruption and the composition of government …

I investigate whether the impact of firm-level corruption on growth varies based on origin of the firm. More … specifically, I examine how corruption in the business environment affects growth for privatized former state-owned enterprises … corruption hampers growth for private firms, but is not detrimental for privatized firms. In fact, some evidences suggest that …

Corruption is often cited as a fundamental obstacle to economic development, making anticorruption initiatives an … important policy objective. However, there is little convincing empiricalevidence concerning the benefits of anti-corruption … reform. We fill this gap by identifying a set ofcountries that experienced a sustained increase in corruption control and …