, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The … incompetence shown by the government in providing relief, the corruption allegations in regards to those efforts, and government … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …

likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims’ demand for public services, raising bribery … indirectly, and also increases victims’ propensity to bribe certain officials conditional on using them, possibly because victims … are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …

In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care … in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care … to a bribery rate of 17%. The income elasticity of the bribe amount cannot be precisely estimated in Peru, but is about 0 …

bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … that older people, who have had time to develop a network, bribe less. These results highlight the uphill nature of the … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …

corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher … corruption increases level of employment in the informal sector. Further, our analysis also shows that for higher levels of …

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less … studied feature of corruption, namely bribe unavoidability. Second, we argue that the social costs of corruption arise not …Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First …