Transparency is usually thought to reduce favoritism and corruption by facilitating monitoring by outsiders, but there … aggregates favoritism (nationalistic bias from own-country judges) and corruption (vote trading), actually increased slightly …

, corruption, and trade agreements, suggesting that firms intentionally misreport trade data. These misreports have implications …

What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in … depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004 …. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one single mechanism, but on a wide range of, often improbable, actors …

We evaluate the net benefits of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) for shareholders by studying the lobbying behavior of …-related provisions than for similar non-lobbying firms. Analysis of returns in the post-passage implementation period indicates that …

corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. We find that a screening process that chooses the highest ability … applicants would not alter the average propensity for corruption among the applicant pool. Our findings imply that differential …

anti-corruption enforcement affect the expected quality of governance through candidate self-selection. We also show that …