Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Scholars making economic policy recommendations to resolve corruption … accepting corruption operate, as well as explaining the importance of the agents for the survival of their environment. The rent … from the early period of transition in the Czech and Slovak Republics to support the implication that the corruption …

This paper aims to study corruption as an epidemic phenomenon using the epidemic diffusion model of Kermack and Mc …-Kendrick (1927). We seek to determine the dynamics of corruption and its impact on the composition of the population at a given time …. We determine a threshold epidemiological corruption based on the approximation of the honest population. -- Corruption …

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

This analysis investigates a political corruption model that builds on previous literature on corruption in hierarchies …. Our study enriches the literature on political corruption emphasizing the contrasting role of the minorities having a … involved into the illicit activity and, eventually, spread the corruption disease. …

This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both … government size and public investment have significant positive effects on corruption, while fiscal decentralization, citizen …

We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …

Why is corruption-defined here as the misuse of public office for private gain-perceived to be more widespread in some … countries than others? Different theories associate cross-national variation in the extent of corruption with particular … analyzes which of various plausible determinants are significantly related to several indexes of "perceived corruption …