their governing institutions than to rearrange nature's bounty. Improving corruption, voice and accountability may not take … that demand factors such as corruption, voice and accountability also determine tax effort to a significant extent. …

sets out to eludicate if there are reasons to believe that public corruption in Swedish municipalities is in fact … increasing corruption, and calls for extensive research on this under-researched topic. …

We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments. Our model shows that corruption may have different … market. Using Swedish firm-level data, we find that affiliate local sales decrease with corruption, while affiliate exports … increase. Finally, corruption has a negative effect on the probability that a foreign firm will invest in a country. These …

registration, and taxation), leads to greater corruption. More regulatory procedures, especially for business startups and property … registrations, have the most corruption-enhancing effect. Whereas lengthier procedures also generally spur corruption, there are … important differences. Finally, higher regulatory transactions costs do not seem to significantly impact corruption. Policy …

This paper tests whether corruption may act as an efficient grease for the wheels of an oth-erwise deficient … institutional framework. We analyze the interaction between aggregate efficiency, corruption, and other dimensions of governance for … a panel of 54 developed and developing countries. Using three measures of corruption and five measures of other aspects …

enforcers - on corruption, drug dealing, and other forms of sequential, bilateral, illegal trade. We find that when not properly …

Latin America is well known as the most inequitable region. As it is recognized, inequality and corruption perception … models including Gini index, Transparency International Corruption Perception Index and Gross Domestic Product per capita …) corruption perception also reduces tax morale. Those results show that the quality of institutions matters and therefore, the way …

and indirectly. Several studies have shown that the indirect effect typically works via institutions like corruption. In … a large cross-section of countries. Our results suggest that whereas more aid means less corruption, natural resource … rents is positively correlated with corruption, although both relationships are nonlinear. <p> …