Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of corruption on the size of the shadow economy in … manifestation of corruption might be associated with country characteristics and that different types of corruption might have … countries to show that geographical location of a country impacts on the relationship between corruption and the shadow economy …

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to unveil the relationship between corruption and economic growth in Bangladesh … positive relation between corruption and growth. This relationship has been significant since 1977 when Bangladesh embarked on … confronted public regulatory bodies for utilities and permits, and indulged in increasing corruption. Thus, both corruption and …

Purpose – Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across African countries? Why are some … countries more effective at battling corruption than others? To assess these concerns this paper aims to examine the … determinants of corruption control throughout the conditional distribution of the fight against corruption using panel data from 46 …

Purpose This paper investigates the corruption-growth relationship in a sample of 146 countries for the period – 1984 …-2009. While negative effects of corruption on growth have drawn economists’ interest in recent years, our main contribution is to … moments. Findings The results challenge some of the findings that negative growth-corruption association in the literature but …

Purpose – This study aims at investigating the effects of cultural values on corruption by integrating Hofstede …'s, Schwartz's, and Inglehart's frameworks. Design/methodology/approach – First, corruption is conceptualized and Schwartz … the level of perceived corruption. More specifically, it is found that Hofstede's High Power Distance, High Uncertainty …

Purpose – Corruption has traditionally been associated with an absence of pro-social norms such as trust and altruism …. This paper challenges this view by examining market corruption – one-shot exchange transactions between strangers in the … contractual violations, acts of market corruption will require strong norms of generalized trust and altruism. As such, pro …

opposed to a plurality system and the extent of corruption may not change much across a crude classification of electoral … systems, this study attempts to connect the level of corruption to the proportion of female legislators by introducing the … instrument for the elected women to clarify the causality of women on corruption since a country with a high number of female …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the relationship between corruption and productive entrepreneurship …. First, it proposes worldwide empirical evidence that countries with high levels of corruption usually face low levels of … than in developing countries. Third, the paper explores whether the negative effect of corruption depends on country …