Fighting corruption is a vital aspect of good governance. When assessing government performance voters should thus withdraw electoral support from government parties that turn a blind eye to or even engage in corrupt practices. Whereas most accounts of performance-based voting focus on economic outcomes, we analyse whether and to what extent voters punish incumbents for high levels of corruptio...

This paper considers the role of corruption in impelling capital flight. Identifying corruption as one dimension of poor governance, the empirical analysis explores direct linkages between corruption and capital flight in a broad sample of countries. The novelty of this investigation is that it is based on a portfolio choice model of asset allocation that explicitly recognizes corruption as con...

This paper is based on a 3-year (2008–2011) research project (This project has received funding from Australian Research Council between 2008 and 2011. Project no. LP0991136. The official title of the project is ‘Designing Creative Clusters in Australian and China’. This project works in partnership between Queensland University of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, ARUP and ‘Creative 10...

Hindi and Punjabi languages belong to the same subgroup of the Indo-European family i.e. Indo-Aryan family of the languages. The script of Hindi language is Devanagari and the script of Punjabi Language is Gurmukhi. Not only the languages are descendant of same stock, but also their scripts are. Hindi is one of the most widely spoken languages of the world, possessing speakers of the same order...

There has been a different success story in fighting corruption developing and developed countries. In recent years, become endemic pervasive. Malaysia dubiously branded as kleptocracy made headlines worldwide. This article examines factors that influence the outcome perceived previous efforts to implement anti-corruption strategies by government combat Malaysia. Using structured review process...

The author builds an agent-based model wherein the societal corruption level is derived from individual corruption levels optimally chosen by heterogeneous agents with different risk aversion and human capital. The societal corruption level, in turn, affects the risk-return profile of corruption for the individual agents. Simulating a multi-generational economy with heterogeneous agents, the au...

The paper studies the influence of Gordon Tullock (1967) and the rent-seeking literature more generally on the study of corruption. The theoretical corruption literature with its emphasis on principal-agent relationships within government and rent creation by corruption politicians has largely, but not entirely, overlooked that contestable rents encourage unproductive use of real resources in s...

We report quantitative relations between corruption level and economic factors, such as country wealth and foreign investment per capita, which are characterized by a power law spanning multiple scales of wealth and investment per capita. These relations hold for diverse countries, and also remain stable over different time periods. We also observe a negative correlation between level of corrup...