to explore the impact of a country’s political environment on its level of corruption. The study provides strong evidence … urbanization are associated with a lower level of public sector corruption across all 121 countries. The colonial dummies and …

It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is … experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices …, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different …

Corruption is a problem that has been shown to adversely affect a country’s development. Recent studies have shown that … a country’s electoral system can affect its corruption level. But if that is the case, then electoral rules could be … chosen to maximize opportunities for corruption. This paper uses the recent wave of democratization and the resulting writing …

This paper analyzes how corruption affects the composition of public expenditures. First, a two-stage rent …-seeking model with endogenous rent-setting is derived that captures both "political corruption" and "bureaucratic corruption". The … levels of corruption. The significance of these distortions is robust to a variety of specifications such as fixed effects …

model psychological morale of bureaucratic agents are important to explain corruption.It is shown that the presence of rents …This paper examines the main determinants of firms tax evasion and corruption in the formal industrial sector. In our … linked to favoritism and patronage practices is fundamental in fostering corruption. Therfore, this endemic corruption can …