This paper considers the possibility of collective action by the business community to counter corruption in the award … probability of winning the license or contract through bribery. An improvement in the government's formal anti-corruption …

Corporate governance in the private sector and corruption are important for economic development and private sector … development. This paper investigates how corporate governance in private-sector media companies can affect public corruption. The … concentration affects corruption: an owner effect, which discourages corruption and a competition-for-control effect that enhances …

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 …

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

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 …

Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …

World Bank's Control of Corruption indicator, despite some important reservations and limitations, are the most valid …Sustainable Development Goal 16 is explicitly committed to measuring aspects of corruption over time, and the … various objective and subjective indicators of corruption, using the standard criteria of validity and reliability to identify …

simple way to combat corruption. However, empirical evidence on the corruption and regulation nexus is limited. Further, the … corruption indices used are based on experts' opinions, which may suffer from perception bias. The present paper attempts to … analysis finds a large, positive effect of regulatory burden on corruption. For the baseline results, the bribery rate is …

competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank …