This paper examines the impact of government spending on the environment using a panel of 77 countries for the time …

This paper examines the effect of economic growth and government spending on the environment using a panel of 71 …

This paper applies nonparametric estimators to examine countries’ carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and governance … the considered relationship are analyzed. Six governance measures are included in our analysis (Voice and Accountability …) as have been defined in World Governance Indicators from the World Bank. The empirical findings reveal a nonmonotonic …

investment can be measured, analyzed, and compared across countries, and that governance is key to the business environment and … of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private … the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions for the climate of business operation and …

We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … framework and a set of hypotheses, and then test them econometrically. The findings suggest that good governance and …

Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the …

Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which … of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …

national governance have been unexplored. This paper summarises the results of the Business Environment and Enterprise … corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and … Performance Survey (BEEPS) across 20 transition economies, providing an assessment of governance and corruption from the …

Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … institutions, iii) a challenge within public sectors, and, iv) divorced from global governance or security issues - seen as … governance constraints, and corruption in particular, is a key determinant of a country's global competitiveness. These findings …