increase investment to reduce their infrastructure gaps. While there are benefits to well-designed and implemented PPPs, they …

cross-border investment. Spillovers from statutory tax rates abroad seem: As sizable as effects from the host's rate; larger … shifting through real investment (rather than 'paper' profit shifting). Contrary to much policy discussion, the results also … imply that: Host countries' marginal effective tax rates have at best a weak effect on real investment; those elsewhere have …

corruption increases the loss of human lives caused by natural disasters, using a large panel of 135 countries during the period … 1980-2020. The econometric analysis provides convincing evidence that corruption increases the number of disaster … corruption in a given country, the greater the number of fatalities as a share of population due to natural disasters. Our …

This paper studies the effect of digitalization on the perception of corruption and trust in tax officials in Africa … digital adoption is associated with a reduction in the perception of corruption and an increase in trust in tax officials … the use of Internet on the perception of corruption. Yet, the paper shows that the dampening effect of digitalization on …

corruption risk factor (aggregated in a synthetic corruption risk index). While there are intrinsic limitations to our study …Public procurement can be highly vulnerable to corruption. This paper outlines a methodology and results in assessing … corruption risks in public procurement and their impact on relative prices, using large databases on government contracts and …