This paper investigates whether the costs of corruption are conditional on the extent of government intervention in the … economy. We use data on corruption convictions and economic growth between 1975 and 2007 across the U.S. states to test this … evidence for the "weak" form of the grease-the-wheels hypothesis. While corruption is never good for growth, its harmful …

This paper investigates the relation between public corruption and the composition of state government expenditures in … the United States. The results suggest that the United States is not immune to the adverse effects of corruption that have … been documented using country-level expenditure data. In particular, I find that corruption reduces the share of spending …

Using state level data on corruption convictions from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section (PIN … corruption convictions tend to be higher in politically important states. However, this effect decreases in magnitude and becomes … statistically insignificant when states have a governor of the same political party as the president. Thus, corruption convictions …

I investigate the relation between corruption and the composition of state government spending in the United States …. The analysis reveals that the United States is not immune to the adverse effects of corruption documented in cross …-country studies. Corruption lowers the share of state government spending devoted to higher education, and raises the share of …

We hypothesize that the spread of the Internet has reduced corruption, chiefly through two mechanisms. First, the … that the spread of the Internet has reduced the extent of corruption across the globe and across the U.S. The size of the …