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 …

corruption and tax compliance. We explore this through a formal leniency program. In our experiment, we nest collusive corruption …

In this paper, we analyze the nature of cooperation in different corruption regimes. In a laboratory experiment with … university students in Mexico, individuals play first a corruption game and then a public goods game. The corruption game is … results. First, there is more corruption in the low-monitoring group. Second, in the public goods game there is less …

corruption and tax compliance. We explore this through a formal leniency program. In our experiment, we nest collusive corruption …

The first step in solving the problem of corruption lies in diagnosing its root causes and determining the underlying …, thereby increasing corruption. Even worse, there are spurious intermediaries who obtain bribes in connection with public …

enforcers - on corruption, drug dealing, and other forms of sequential, bilateral, illegal trade. We find that when not properly …-shot) illegal transactions, which would not be enforceable otherwise. -- Law enforcement ; Self-reporting ; Corruption ; Crime …

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials. -- Corruption …

For our experiment on corruption we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and … behavior. The experimental results show that a higher degree of uncertainty in the informational setting reduces corruption …. -- Corruption ; game theory ; experiment ; risk attitude ; beliefs …