at favoring universalism may provide an effective tool in the fight against corruption …

capita. They argue that this may be the case because longer constitutions lead to greater corruption. However, uncovering a … causal relationship between constitutional length and corruption is difficult. On the one hand, political elites may pressure … may be responding to corruption by including a large number of specific safeguards. Our aim in this paper is to explore …

shapes the relationship between public corruption and the cost of bank loans. We find strong evidence that banks led by CEOs … high local public corruption in the state of the borrowing firms. We find some similar evidence for banks led by CEOs that … as the matching between borrowing firms from states with high corruption and the cultural heritage of bank CEOs, omitted …

This paper studies the effect of digitalization on the perception of corruption and trust in tax officials in Africa … digital adoption is associated with a reduction in the perception of corruption and an increase in trust in tax officials … the use of Internet on the perception of corruption. Yet, the paper shows that the dampening effect of digitalization on …

Economists tend to reduce all corruption to impersonal market-like transactions, ignoring the role of social ties in … shaping corruption. In this paper, we show that this simplification substantially limits the understanding of corruption. We … distinguish between market corruption (impersonal bribery), and network (or parochial) corruption which is conditional on the …

This paper discusses the issue of perceptions and their influence on economic processes focusing on corruption … perception. The higher the perceived corruption in an organization is, the more probable it is that a person dealing with that … organization would offer a bribe, thus supporting corruption. Since corruption perceptions are rarely based on actual experience …

This paper discusses the issue of perceptions and their influence on economic processes focusing on corruption … perception. The higher the perceived corruption in an organization is, the more probable it is that a person dealing with that … organization would offer a bribe, thus supporting corruption. Since corruption perceptions are rarely based on actual experience …

, the paper goes beyond previous studies investigating also the impact of geographic identification, corruption and … globalization. We find that a higher level of (perceived) corruption reduces the trust in the UN in developed countries, but …

less corruption, more social welfare and education spending, more open markets, and better functioning government …