of which is the reduction of corruption. First tests concerning the economic effects of JA are carried out drawing on the … absence of corruption within the judiciary as well as data gathered by the U.S. State Department as proxies. On the basis of …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

, 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 …

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials. …

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of … extent of corruption. A cluster of institutional indicators representing 'market freedom' is only significant in some … specifications. Freedom from corruption is significantly related to entrepreneurial entry, especially when the richest countries are …

Measures of corruption and income are highly correlated across countries. We use prehistoric measures of biogeography … corruption just as well as do actual incomes. This result demonstrates that the long-run causality is entirely from income to … corruption. Hence, there is a Corruption Transition: As countries get rich, corruption vanishes. …

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …

While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of analysis, research … is now increasingly focused on anti-corruption discourse and praxis. The latter analyses have generated numerous … criticisms of anti-corruption activities and anti-corruption research, and these are presented in this literature review. These …