This study examines how bribery influences bank debt ratios for a large sample of firms from 14 transition countries …. We combine information on bribery practices from the BEEPS survey with firm-level accounting data from the Amadeus … database. Bribery is measured by the frequency of extra unofficial payments to officials to “get things done”. We find that …

corruption, briberies and bureaucratic procedures. The research data come from the author's questionnaire research, which was … looked upon bureaucratic or administrative issues and the regulatory environment, together with corruption, political and …

This study examines how bribery influences bank debt ratios for a large sample of firms in 14 transition countries. We … combine information on bribery practices from the BEEPS survey with firm-level accounting data from the Amadeus database …. Bribery is measured by the frequency of extra unofficial payments to officials to “get things done”. We find that bribery is …

We combine information on bribery practices with firm-level accounting data to examine how bribery influences bank debt … ratios for a large sample of firms in 14 transition countries. We find that bribery is positively related to firms’ total … varies with the maturity of the bank debt, as bribery contributes to higher short-term bank debt ratios but lower long …

In this paper, we study the evolution of corruption patterns in 27 post-communist countries during the period 1996 …-2012 using the Control of Corruption Index and the corruption category Markov transition probability matrix. This method allows … us to generate the long-run distribution of corruption among the post-communist countries. Our empirical findings suggest …

Numerous studies have found negative connection between corruption level and economic development. At the same time few … of them demonstrate correlation between women representation in politics and corruption level. This paper analyzes … correlation between gender and corruption for a specific sample of countries, sharing common cultural and historical legacy …