background and purpose: more than a third of the world’s population lack access to essential medicines, despite the presence of several international agreements that proclaim health as a human right. corruption, in its many forms, such as bribery and embezzlement, causes several detrimental effects on the health sector and access to medicines including economic, health, and government image and...

Abstract Connecting to rule-makers in order to set favorable rules (lobbying) or paying government executives to bend the current rule (bribing) are the two main strategies for influencing government. This study in an evolutionary game model explain why bribing may become widespread while other states like compliance and cooperative lobbying are Pareto superior. The theoretical model is used ...

This paper evaluates the quantitative corruption indices that have emerged during the past decade. While they have spurred valuable new research, they also reflect the worldviews of the business and development interests that have dominated recent debate. Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index is the most important “first-generation” measure, and diverse statistical technique...

This paper contributes to the corruption literature by implementing bribery in the laboratory as a repeated three person sequential game, consisting of a firm, a government official and a citizen. In contrast to the design of Abbink et al (2002) and Cameron et al (2009a), our design fixes the value of the bribe that the firm can offer and the favor that the government official can grant, allowi...

This paper examines firms’ incentives to commit to a transparent behavior (that precludes bribery) in a competitive procedure modeled as an asymmetric information beauty contest managed by a corrupt agent. In his evaluation of firms’ offers for a public contract the agent has some discretion to favor a firm in exchange of a bribe. It is shown that a conditional commitment mechanism can eliminat...

The modern realities of the public life Russian state require modernization legal norms regulating counteraction bodies to manifestations corruption. article attempts substantiate possibility decriminalization “promise mediation in bribery”.

Corporations are entities that have a large role in society, there many positive roles to life, but not few negative existences of activities arise, including corruption. The purpose this article is analyze the implementation Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS) dealing Corruption by Indonesia. method used normative juridical legal research. This concl...