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The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption … policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage …
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Using firm-level data from more than 39,000 firms in 111 economies, this paper tests the hypothesis that corruption … between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …
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Business and politicians' interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analyzed with a binary approach, id est either a firm is connected to a politician or not. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. This paper uses use a unique data set for seven economies that...
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