Exploiting a unique data set containing information on the estimated bribe payments of Ugandan firms, we study the relationship between bribery payments, taxes and firm growth over the period 1995-97. Using industry-location averages to circumvent the potential problem of endogeneity, and to deal with issues of measurement error, we find that both the rate of taxation and bribery are negatively...

white-collar criminals are those who abusing their official occupations commit profitable, nonviolent crimes. the most important manifestations of white collar crimes are: fraud, corruption (including bribery), employment offences, consumer offences, drug and food offences, environmental crimes, cyber crimes, and customs offences. some manifestations of white collar crime have direct victims so...

In just a few months in early 1997, Mexico fired its top drug-enforcement official for accepting bribes and ultimately closed the agency because it was so ridden with corruption; Ukraine’s president once again declared war on corruption; Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng lamented that his country was losing ground in its war on corruption; President Kim Young Sam deplored endemic corruption in Sou...

As an instrument of corruption control, it has been argued that asymmetric punishment can eliminate harassment bribery if whistle-blowing is cheap and e ective. In a more realistic environment where bribery is most likely to survive and another type of bribery non harassment one coexists, this paper investigates how asymmetric punishment a ects the endogenous choice of bribe type to the bribe-g...

Corruption can be unfair and detrimental to societies; however, little is known regarding how individuals perceive corruption. We aim to understand how psychological factors, such as lay belief of the world, influence perceived intention of corruptive behavior. As corruption undermines justice, we hypothesize that belief in a just world to others (BJW-others) reduces perceived intention of corr...

This paper uses a microlevel data set from 49 countries to create a direct measure of corruption, which portrays the extent of bribery as revealed by individuals who live in those countries. In addition, it investigates the determinants of being asked for a bribe at the individual level. The results show that both personal and country characteristics determine the risk of exposure to bribery. E...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of bribery on firm performance and provides quantitative estimates of the impact of corruption on the performance of the firm. Impact of bribery is checked through the questionnaire which is distributed among 100 respondents. In theoretical framework, firm performance is dependent variable and bribery is independent variable. The correlatio...

The relevance of the topic is explained by fact that in modern conditions Russia, fight against corruption actively being conducted. President Russian Federation, State and local government bodies, civil society institutions, organizations individuals, within their competence, carry out anti-corruption activities. But as life shows, it not always possible to effectively country, there a need tu...

BACKGROUND Corruption pervades educational and other institutions worldwide and medical schools are not exempt. Empirical evidence about levels and types of corruption in medical schools is sparse. We conducted surveys in 2000 and 2007 in the medical school of the Autonomous University of Guerrero in Mexico to document student perceptions and experience of corruption and to support the medical ...

This paper introduces ‘harassment’ in a simple model of bribery and corruption. With fixed costs of ‘harassment’, people belonging to the higher income group enjoy more benefit relative to the poorer section of the society. An equilibrium is likely where the poor favor a system without ‘harassment’ but the affluent ones do not.