Corruption is a symptom of weak institutional quality and could have potentially adverse
effects on economic growth. However, heterogeneity in reported findings makes it difficult to …

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes
containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the …

Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age,
Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt …

Mounting environmental pressures led China to focus on the effectiveness of the
environmental regulation to control pollution. Since the shadow economy, or underground …

Drawing on institutional theory and the model of entrepreneurial action, we build and test a
multilevel model on the outcomes of entrepreneurship education. Essentially, we suggest …

The current literature contains mixed results regarding the impact of corruption on
entrepreneurship and economic growth. In this paper, we examine a much larger set of …

Financial misconduct (FM) rates differ widely between major US cities, up to a factor of 3.
Although spatial differences in enforcement and firm characteristics do not account for these …

This paper tests whether corruption may be an efficient grease in the wheels of an otherwise
deficient institutional framework. It analyzes the interaction between aggregate efficiency …

This paper uses panel data from African countries and a dynamic panel estimator to
investigate the effects of corruption on economic growth and income distribution. I find that …

We use a data set of federal corruption convictions in the US to investigate the causes and
consequences of corruption. More educated states, and to a smaller degree richer states …