The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in informal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

Using several themes of corrupting practices, this multi-dimensional corruption survey has attempted to assess through … corrosive nature of corruption in Ethiopia. The survey asked public officials and some members of the “elite community” of Addis … Ababa about their perception of corruption and their corruption experiences, if any. The rather unique nature and …

ten year average rainfall variations as instrument for household income in rural Bangladesh, we find that corruption is … results imply that `free schooling' is free only for the rich, and corruption makes the playing field skewed against the poor …

A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both 'Corruption Perception Index' and 'ICRG' index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …

For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … setting reduces corruption …

Prevailing work argues that foreign investment reduces corruption, either by competing down monopoly rents or diffusing … openness to foreign investment has differential effects on corruption even within the same country and under the same domestic …

Corruption has long been endemic in Indian telecommunications. Individuals and small contractors must pay bribes or … are underway to reduce corruption …

the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of … corruption is positively associated with social interaction. Then we empirically verify the theoretical prediction using within … a statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings, therefore, underscore the …