political cost or of corruption. To demonstrate this analysis, we use the level of personal corruption as indicator of … enrichment in the various countries and the political cost or corruption in case of failure. This cost is supposed weakness …

This paper analyses the European Union pressure in the fight against corruption in the Romanian public administration …

The paper revisits the relationship been reform and corruption. We consider a scenario where less efficient domestic …

corruption, unstable economic policies, weak and poorly enforced property rights, and inefficient government institutions. Our …

increase in corruption. Further, the paper examines the channels of causality underlying this relationship. The graphical … analysis shows the consistency of the data with the hypothesis according to which corruption, military expenditure, and …

Acemoglu and Verdier (AER, 2000), that consider corruption like a necessary by-product of the public intervention in the …. 500 /1999 of the Italian Supreme Court on corruption involve two different analyses. The first, based on the official data …

objective measure of corruption based on the distribution of “beautiful” registration numbers. This article reviews their study … the absence of corruption, the “beautiful” registration numbers will be distributed normally regardless of automobile … brands. In the presence of corruption, however, the “beautiful” registration numbers will be concentrated across luxury …

candidates who they think are corrupt. Their main finding is that corruption in public office is effectively punished by voters …. Given the well-known issues with adequately measuring corruption, this note examines the sensitivity of extant findings to … an alternate corruption measure. We fail to find a statistically robust effect of corruption on electoral outcomes. …