This article empirically studies why manufacturing firms bribe the government officials. Firm-level data focusing on … country-level data from multiple sources. We then studied both firm-level and country-level reasons why firms bribe and how …

Purpose: Corruption, which includes payments of bribes to government officials, poses a serious impediment to the …, culture and decision making to predict whether and to what extent small business owners bribe government officials. Design …-side of corruption. It also explains how the lens of anomie theory leads to a better understanding of the mechanism of action …

Yukos Crisis, as a legitimate battle against corruption. However, in the transition economies, the state can abuse its power … retaining its monopoly power as a “fight with corruption”. In this paper we build a game between the state firm (government) and … the private firm (oligarchs), where the oligarchs can be of “strong” or “weak” type. Oligarchs use the amount of bribe to …

In recent years the topics of illegal activities such as corruption or tax evasion have attracted a great deal of …

In recent years the topics of illegal activities such as corruption or tax evasion have attracted a great deal of …

This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …

hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002 - 2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15 - 64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …