earlier studies, to wit, firm size and country size are inversely related to the index of corruption. Political instability … and the court system were positively related to corruption. Policy implications of the findings are discussed. …

corruption. In doing so, it combines the aid – corruption literature with the literature that addresses the impact of gender on … corruption. We also inquire if aid is more effective in countries with a larger participation of women in parliament. We find … that neither aid nor the percentage of women in parliament affects perceived corruption in a significant way. Moreover, the …

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

Whistle-blowing is seen as a powerful tool in containing corruption, although theoretical findings and experimental … evidence cast doubt on its effectiveness. We expand a standard corruption model by allowing both, briber and official to … initiate corruption actively, in order to assess the full effect of whistle-blowing. In our laboratory experiment we find that …

The ‘Four-Eyes-Principle’ is considered as one of the most potent measures against corruption although it lacks both … theoretical and empirical justification. We show in a laboratory experiment using a standard corruption game that introducing the …

Corruption, evasion and the abuse of power (and the possibility thereof) are pervasive features of economic activity. A …

corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and a?ects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative e …?ectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. Recent research has shown that … perceived corruption might not be a good indicator of actual corruption in a country. In this paper, we employ a structural …