We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and … investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960.2014. We relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial … accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that …

In this paper we study the influence of economic stability on the level of corruption in a country, where high … exogenous shocks to economic output where politicians can decide about the level of corruption and an election is held within … the framework of a Bayesian game. Corruption is assumed to be harmful to the economy and politicians try to maximize …

In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even if they have democratic … high corruption levels. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt officials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative … positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …

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 studies the role of council size on government corruption in Brazil. We leverage on the discontinuous … corruption detected during federal audits. Results also show that having an extra councilor does not affect the size of the …

corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La … about corruption scandals involving left-wing politicians in the days right before the elections, while it reduces the … number of those about right episodes of corruption and without any political connection. Instead, for La Repubblica we do not …

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 …

Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the … indicator of grand corruption based on a wide range of elementary indicators. These indicators are derived from a rich … qualitative evidence on public procurement corruption and a statistical analysis of a public procurement data in Hungary. The …