classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data …/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more …

With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …

The paper develops a theoretical model showing a mutual relationship between corruption and capital account … restrictions. According to the model, higher corruption induces stricter restrictions and vice versa. We test the model using panel … data for 112 countries over the period 1984-2002 and find that corruption and restrictions are indeed mutually determined …

regulations are the driving forces of the shadow economy. Furthermore, the results show that the shadow economy reduces corruption … in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. Finally, the various estimation methods are …

indicators.Corruption focus could also claims World Bank parenthood since Transparency International birth was the fruit of a … new way to measure governance and corruption emerged. Although the data resulting from household surveys provides … investigate the gap between expert and household surveys regarding the measurement of corruption. Indeed, experts and populations …

The paper discusses the impact of corruption on the probability of violent conflict events and traces the …

This study offers fresh insights on and investigates the effects of corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI …) inflow from 1995 to 2009 in 16 Asian economies. The empirical result suggests that a 1 percent increase in corruption level … triggers an approximately 9.1 percentage point decrease in FDI inflow. Thus, some of the arguments that corruption does not …

The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in informal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both 'Corruption Perception Index' and 'ICRG' index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …

This article investigates the relationship between corruption and firm performance in Greece using firm level data …. Corruption is overall negatively associated with firm size and growth at the firm level. We focus on the effect of … ‘administrative corruption', whereby firms engage in corrupt practices and bribery of government officials. We contrast the firm …