focus on World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS), and propose suggestions on how to improve questionnaires …

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …

This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …