In this paper, I study how anti-corruption shocks affect Chinese city leaders through political factions or social … investigated for corruption affects the city leaders' economic performances and policy outcomes. I find that college and workplace … evidence supports the explanation that the corruption investigation of officials initiates promotion competition inside the …

Many studies have examined corruption’s effect upon economic growth. This study takes a different approach and … efforts, we count the number of articles from official newspapers that discuss corruption or anticorruption policies. These … these papers only appear with official approval. Therefore, the frequency of corruption and anticorruption articles within …

The problem of measuring changes in corruption internationally is significantly more daunting than that of estimating … their levels. We compute trends in corruption for groups of geographically proximate countries, based on the geographic … distribution of cases of cross-border bribes, and confirm that geographic variations in corruption are greater than time variations …

Economic and rent-seeking outcomes are determined jointly in a dynamic general equilibrium model of corruption, public … responsible for providing public goods, which contribute to productive efficiency. Corruption arises because of an opportunity for …. The model produces multiple development regimes, which yield different predictions about corruption, public spending and …

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between ethnic fractionalization, corruption and the growth rate of a … country. We provide a simple theoretical model. We show that a nonlinear relationship between fractionalization and corruption … exists: corruption is high in homogeneous or very fragmented countries, but low where fractionalization is intermediate. In …

The existing literature concentrates mainly on impacts of corruption on economic growth. As the old saying goes, every … coin has two sides. We focus primarily on effects of anti-corruption on economic growth. The study of the influences of … anti-corruption policies on economic performance is rarely found in the available literature. This study designs a …

This paper investigates the relationship between corruption and development. By a study of the determinants of the … phenomenon as well as its implications on growth, this paper address the corruption challenge faced by governments and … not entirely clear, it is however without debate to say that development is necessarily linked with anti-corruption …