We provide empirical support and a theoretical explanation for the vicious circle of political corruption and tax … corruption can emerge based on the existence of strategic complementarities, indicating that “corruption” may corrupt …

of the country's institutions enhanced wide spread corruption which can be described as system's inherent and cannot be …

In this article we estimate the level of Control of Corruption for 193 countries in the period 2011-2020 using data … Data with Fixed Effects, Pooled OLS, WLS. Results show that “Control of Corruption” is positively associated, among others …. A confrontation among eight Machine Learning algorithms is proposed for the prediction of Control of Corruption …

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 …

We estimate the causal effect of the electoral system on corruption by leveraging a specificity of the French electoral … system. Exploiting that discontinuity in a regression discontinuity design and using survey and actual corruption data, we … find that the proportional list system results in higher levels of perceived and actual corruption than the individual …

federal corruption laws. Has prosecutorial discretion been employed to persecute enemies or shield allies? To answer this … question, I develop a model of the interaction between officials contemplating corruption and a prosecutor deciding whether to … tend to be \textit{lower} than those of co-partisans. Employing newly collected data on public corruption prosecutions, I …