Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics and performance of firms, we find that: i) corruption reduces FDI inflows and attracts lower quality investment in terms of governance standards; ii) in ...

This paper considers the anti-corruption disclosure reporting of large UK-quoted extractive companies from 2003 to 2019. period includes introduction 2010 UK Bribery Act, which might be expected influence corporate disclosure. It takes content analysis metrics environmental literature, is a more developed area research, and an with higher volume disclosures. applies these investigate trends in ...

A row has erupted among prominent Indian doctors about the suitability of Ketan Desai, a former president of the Medical Council of India, as president of theWorldMedical Association, a position he is due to take up in October 2016. The disagreement centres around charges brought against Desai in 2010 by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation, which accused him of having sought a bribe from a ...

Although the effects of corruption on bilateral trade are well-documented, its impact composition trading partners remains unexplored. In this paper, we argue that in a country imposes asymmetric costs depending their characteristics. Consequently, as level changes, flows from some change more than others, characteristics, changing partners. We focus two characteristics partners: (1) and (2) me...

This paper examines the effects of bribery on product and process innovation at firm level in Latin American countries. We provide insights into heterogeneous types innovations across firms. Using locality-sector average bribe payments as a percentage annual sales, we control for endogeneity bias, which is recurring econometric problem corruption-innovation studies. Overall, find evidence to su...

The present inquiry addresses the nexus between development of electronic government and corruption in provision public sector services developing transition economies. study analyzes potential contribution combating petty within framework two superimposed principal-agent model show that could potentially limit bureaucratic corruption. To address research question empirically, applies random to...

Manipulation and bribery have received much attention from the social choice community. We consider these concepts in the setting of preference formalisms, where the Pareto principle is used to assign to preference theories collections of optimal outcomes, rather than a single winning outcome as is common in social choice. We adapt the concepts of manipulation and bribery to this setting. We pr...