, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … growth of all firms, particularly micro and small firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure …

Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First …, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less … studied feature of corruption, namely bribe unavoidability. Second, we argue that the social costs of corruption arise not …

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …

those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …

corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model … which introduces taxes into Foellmi and Oechslin's (2007) general equilibrium model of non-collusive corruption. In this … model perceived corruption influences people's preferences for redistribution through two channels. On the one hand it …

. Overall, our findings suggest that the proclivity to corruption of the former Communist party members has been transmitted … through family and thus sustained over time, contributing to corruption decades after the demise of the Socialist bloc …

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to … corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the … model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors …