The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on …

public corruption. In contrast, sanctions have no significant effect on political stability in countries with lower levels of … corruption. These results are robust across various model specifications, control variables, competing moderator, and alternative … during sanctions by improving their control of corruption. …

We estimate the causal effect of the electoral system on corruption by leveraging a specificity of the French electoral … system. Exploiting that discontinuity in a regression discontinuity design and using survey and actual corruption data, we … find that the proportional list system results in higher levels of perceived and actual corruption than the individual …

Corruption is the great disease of government. It undermines the efficiency of the public sector in many countries … around the world. We experimentally study civic engagement (CE) as a constraint on corruption when incentives are stacked … against providing CE. We show that CE is powerful in curbing corruption when citizens can encourage each other to provide CE …

corruption where the judicial system is independent, this relationship has more ambiguous effects where the legal system is weak … and susceptible to politicization. These effects remain after controlling for standard determinants of corruption. …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

This paper develops a simple framework to analyze the links between corruption and the unofficial economy and their …

corruption-free or plagued by corruption. Contingent on the nature of adjudicatory bias, bribery either discourages private … antitrust lawsuits or incentivizes firms to engage in frivolous litigation. Corruption expectedly reduces the effectiveness of … can be social welfare-enhancing even in the presence of corruption. Under some circumstances, corruption actually …