motive. Using clustered OLS regression with fixed effects and interaction terms, I find that there is in fact a "corruption …

to receiving bribe demands. While much of the existing literature on corruption looks at the effect of corruption on … corruption by attempting to profile an individual or firm that is particularly vulnerable to bribe demands. This is done using … of sources. The study finds that the proportion of individuals facing corruption is consistently lower than that of firms …

In this paper we look at the impact of broad policy reforms on the levels of corruption. We use a structural break … approach to identify country specific time periods in which significant shifts in corruption levels take place. We then … equity market liberalization. We find robust support for the hypothesis that episodes of reduction in corruption levels tend …

Background: Corruption can refer to a wide variety of actions and/or behaviours, which makes establishing a clear … definition difficult. Corruption is an inherently multi-level phenomenon. It can operate at Individual, group, organizational and … industry level. This study defines corruption as “a process which perverts the original nature of an individual or group from a …

increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to …

In this article we estimate the level of Control of Corruption for 193 countries in the period 2011-2020 using data … Data with Fixed Effects, Pooled OLS, WLS. Results show that “Control of Corruption” is positively associated, among others …. A confrontation among eight Machine Learning algorithms is proposed for the prediction of Control of Corruption …

We conduct parallel surveys of legislators and citizens in three countries to study their tolerance for corruption. In …-offs between, for example, probity and efficiency: both perceive corruption as undesirable but prevalent. These novel descriptive … data further reveal that legislators generally have accurate beliefs about public opinion on corruption and understand its …

, the threat of being betrayed by their fellows may induce top-criminals to rely on corruption (to avoid sanctions). However …