correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …

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

The paper highlights the interaction between the underground economy and corruption, focusing on the regional … regulations in Greece, concluding that Greece shows profound signs of a transition country in terms of the high level of …

Up until the 1980s, studies on corruption were dominated by disciplines of public administration and sociology. In the … International Agency, corruption, which has a negative impact on most macroeconomic indicators, is “the abuse of entrusted power for … private gain”. Even though the disruption of corruption causing weak growth and investment rates has long been examined, there …

analyse how petty corruption erodes tax morale. A mediation analysis shows that petty corruption directly reduces tax morale … severe in countries and regions where fewer people are affected by petty corruption and becomes insignificant if extortion of …

places endowed with more amenities. In the crossroad between these factors, this paper investigates corruption as key element …. Results suggest the dual role of push and pull mechanisms at play, as high corruption incentivizes Italian skilled mobility to … destinations that, instead, exhibit lower corruption. Moreover, sensitivity of the prospective tertiary students to corruption …

size of shadow economy (SE) in Greece is estimated using a flexible MIMIC approach with time series data from 2000 to 2018 …). We found that the average size of shadow economy in Greece was up to 37.63% for the reference period, above the average …

This paper analyzes the impact of corruption on bilateral trade flows, highlighting the dual role of corruption in … terms of extortion and evasion. On one hand, corruption taxes trade, when corrupt customs officials in the importing country … extort bribes from exporters (the extortion effect); on the other, if tariffs are high, corruption may be trade enhancing …

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … that corruption is beneficial in highly regulated economies. At the maximum level of regulation among our sample of …