We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from …

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from …

present, countries with weaker corruption control experience a lower spread of conflict. Consistent with the “grease the …

This study assess the effect of corruption on the occurrence of banking crisis for a sample of 38 countries over the … period 2000 – 2017. We consider both the direct and the indirect channels through which corruption might affect the … occurrence of banking crisis. We also check using a threshold regression approach for the existence of a corruption threshold …

hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002–2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …

This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …