Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government …, private sector, and civil society organizations, to drive implementation at the local level and serve as a force for …

main effect. They test the theory using the World Val-ues Survey as a source of proxies for morality. Using their preferred …

finance, exposure to corruption, and sales growth. Relying on a data set of more than 70,000 firms in 121 countries, the … financial constraints than unaudited firms. On the other hand, audited firms face a significantly higher level of corruption … considerations of the endogeneity of auditing and to alternative measures of corruption and financial constraints. The findings …

corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such relationship as well as using … superior and more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of … governments, is shown to have significant negative effect on the incidence of corruption regardless of the choice of the …

Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and … Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …

Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. This …

Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and … Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

This research examines the economic origins and spread of Islam in the Old World and uncovers two empirical …