As is increasingly recognised in academic literature and by international organisations,
corruption acts as a major deterrent to growth and development. The aim of this survey is to …

In recent years a growing body of empirical work has examined the causes and
consequences of corruption. These investigations are mostly crosscountry analyses, based …

I analyze corruption in international business, presenting a critical assessment of the topic
and providing suggestions for future research. I argue that corruption creates a laboratory for …

This paper examines the impact of national wealth, income distribution, government size,
and four cultural variables on the perceived level of corruption in a country. The study finds …

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests
empirically whether such a relationship exists. The empirical analysis is based on data from …

Daily life in Africa is governed by the'petty'corruption of public officials in services such as
health, transport, or the judicial system. This remarkable study of everyday corruption in …

Data on the perceived level of corruption from a cross-section of countries have been
fruitfully introduced into empirical research lately. This study reviews a large variety of …

This article demonstrates the impact of public officials' corruption on the size and allocation
of US state spending. Extending two theories of “excessive” government expansion, the …

Because corruption must be hidden from the public, transaction costs arising are of a
different type than those of legal exchange. Moreover, because of the ever-present threat of …

This report is an overview of contemporary research on corruption. The main objectives of
the study have been to organise existing knowledge on corruption, discuss the major …