Democratic elections have been assumed to play a crucial role in curbing corruption among
public officials. Voters, due to their general distaste for corruption, are expected to sanction …

Due to global warming and increasingly severe resource and environmental constraints, the
role of renewable energy in reducing pollutant emissions and mitigating environmental …

La corrupción constituye un fenómeno insidioso, amplio, variado y global que comprende
actividades tanto públicas como privadas. No se trata únicamente del tosco saqueo del …

Regulation is widely considered as the key issue in reforms of public service sectors. But it
has been pointed early to the problem that regulatory capture could undermine the stated …

The recent growth in research on “good governance” and the quality of government
institutions has been propelled by empirical findings that show that such institutions may …

Corruption is likely to lower the productivity of capital due to a variety of channels. Corruption
renders governments incapable or unwilling to achieve public welfare as a result of x …

Politically-driven corruption is a pervasive challenge for development, but evidence of its
welfare effects are scarce. Using data from a major rural road construction programme in …

This paper empirically examines the impact of corruption on the structure of government
spending by sector. Using the three-stage least squares method on 64 countries between …

This paper examines the relation between political corruption and the composition of public
spending. A rent-seeking model is used to describe political rent creation through the …

The paper studies the influence of Tullock (West Econ J 5: 224–232, 1967) and the rent-
seeking literature more generally on the study of corruption. The theoretical corruption …