Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government …

Two decades of empirical evaluation have shown that corruption has a negative impact on economic growth, political … stability, judicial effectiveness, democratization, educational attainment, and equality of income. However, corruption exists … incentives and disincentives for corrupt behavior. However, lab studies on culture and corruption have led to some puzzling …

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 …

countries around the world, and employing a variety of econometric techniques, this paper identifies the partial correlates of …