Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight … against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in … the corruption battle? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption-control throughout the …

corruption. We argue that an anticipated oil boom may increase corruption by boosting the value attributed by an elite to being …-designed household surveys on perceived corruption in the public services/sector. These were carried out in São Tomé and Príncipe and in … corruption has occurred in São Tomé and Príncipe in recent years, ranging from 21 to 38% of the subjective scale. Consistently …

This study provides the first empirical assessment of the causal impact of bureaucratic corruption on firms' financial … heterogeneous treatment effects across firm groups. Formally, the theoretical framework models how corruption may facilitate or …, reveals that corruption significantly increases the probability of a representative MSME and firm being financially …

In this paper, I analyze how corruption in one country may be affected by its neighbors' corruption. It seeks to … explain why corruption is perpetuating in large geographical areas populated by developing countries despite anticorruption … efforts made in the single country. In our empirical approach, we capture the spatial dependency by regional corruption. Three …