Using several independent data sets, we investigate the relationship between gender and corruption. We show using micro … corruption is less severe where women hold a larger share of parliamentary seats and senior positions in the government …

-cusses how issues related to the privatization process (corruption, conflicts of interests and lack of accountability) may be …

We present a simple model explaining corruption on geography and climate conditions. We test the model's validity in a … cross-section of 115 countries. Controlling for all other corruption's determinants we find evidence supporting the model …'s predictions. Corruption increases with temperature and declines with precipitation and non-cultivatable land. Corruption also …

Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First …, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less … studied feature of corruption, namely bribe unavoidability. Second, we argue that the social costs of corruption arise not …

reducing fixed entry costs characterized by corruption. …

Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First …, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less … studied feature of corruption, namely bribe unavoidability. Second, we argue that the social costs of corruption arise not …

This paper reviews the theories of corruption in regulated sectors to further understand the impact of corruption and … attempt to draw out some of the broader lessons that can be learnt for anti-corruption policy in general. …

This paper analyzes how corruption affects the composition of public expenditures. First, a two-stage rent …-seeking model with endogenous rent-setting is derived that captures both "political corruption" and "bureaucratic corruption". The … levels of corruption. The significance of these distortions is robust to a variety of specifications such as fixed effects …

By using three corruption indices, six privatization indicators, and taking the endogeneity problem into consideration …, we test the hypothesis that privatization contributes to a decrease in corruption in transition economies. We identified … a highly statistically significant and negative association between privatization and corruption in transition economies …