Corporation (MCC) was successful in promoting better control of corruption. We employ a difference … corruption over time. …

This paper investigates the question of whether corruption might ‘grease the wheels’ of an economy. We investigate … whether and to what extent the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship is dependent on corruption. We first test whether … whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. Our empirical …

Corporation (MCC) was successful in promoting better control of corruption. We employ a difference … fight corruption over time. …

corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and a?ects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative e …?ectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. Recent research has shown that … perceived corruption might not be a good indicator of actual corruption in a country. In this paper, we employ a structural …

Corporation (MCC) was successful in promoting better control of corruption. We employ a difference … corruption over time. We conclude that - if designed properly - conditionality can work. …

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …

Corporation (MCC) was successful in promoting better control of corruption. We employ a difference … corruption over time. We conclude that - if designed properly - conditionality can work. …