The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (infirmal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in infirmal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …

history of past play has little effect on the level of corruption. …

conclude discussing the implications for the fight of more harmful forms of corruption. …

prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …

employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine's GDP in 2003). …

political support. Combining data on the public disclosure of anti-corruption efforts and individual well-being in China, we …

This paper investigates whether corruption has contributed to the rise of the shadow economy in Uganda. Using … between corruption and the size of the shadow economy in both the long- and short-run. Additionally, the causality results … reveal a bidirectional causal relationship between the shadow economy and corruption, and vice versa. These findings suggest …

In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even if they have democratic … high corruption levels. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt offcials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative … positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …