This paper compares growth conditions in China and Latin America to assess fears that China will displace Latin America in the coming decades. China’s strengths include the size of the economy, macroeconomic stability, abundant low-cost labour, the rapid expansion of physical infrastructure and the ability to innovate. Its weaknesses stem from insufficient separation between market and state. T...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, corruption in South African companies, both state-owned and privately-owned, reached staggering proportions. This included bribery, procurement irregularities, overpricing fraudulent deals between government officials companies. article identifies provisions of Companies Act 71 2008 that may be used to address corporate corruption. is done with a view ascertaining ...

We study how cultural norms and enforcement policies influence illicit corporate activities. Using confidential Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit data, we show that corporations with owners from countries with higher corruption norms evade more tax in the U.S. This effect is strong for small corporations and decreases as the size of the corporation increases. In the mid-2000s, the United Sta...

We use Transparency International’s ratings of self-reported anticorruption efforts for 480 corporations to analyze factors underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms’ real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that firms with high ratings are domiciled in countries with low corruption ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement...

This study aims to determine the barriers prosecution of criminal acts corporate corruption in accordance with development existing laws and regulations find out obstacles its application real life. research is an empirical legal research, using law approach, interview data collection approach. corporations as subjects are modern society, role very strategic, even practice it can be a means com...

This paper uses a sample of 7235 banks from 160 countries between 2000 and 2016 to investigate the link corruption, lending bank performance. It considers both country- bank-level corruption. The study finds that while corruption increases lending, it has an adverse impact on profits risks (credit, solvency distance default). Corporate is found be most influenced by Bank-level influences perfor...

This study analyzes the effect of Good Corporate Governance (GCG) and company characteristics on tendency to disclose anti-corruption policies in Indonesian companies. aims re-examine factors that influence companies context exist Indonesia are listed Stock Exchange (IDX). The good corporate governance itself is described through proxies governance, namely institutional ownership, audit committ...