This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country … States from corruption-ridden countries are more likely to be apprehended than individuals from less corrupt countries are. …

techniques highlight the home country's social ills such as corruption, theft and homicide as key determinants. Also included in … host country. These results suggest that chronic socio-economic problems such as corruption, crimes, and poverty in the …

Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

analyse how petty corruption erodes tax morale. A mediation analysis shows that petty corruption directly reduces tax morale … severe in countries and regions where fewer people are affected by petty corruption and becomes insignificant if extortion of …

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

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 …

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …

Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …