registration, and taxation), leads to greater corruption. More regulatory procedures, especially for business startups and property … registrations, have the most corruption-enhancing effect. Whereas lengthier procedures also generally spur corruption, there are … important differences. Finally, higher regulatory transactions costs do not seem to significantly impact corruption. Policy …

This paper adds to the literature on the government-corruption nexus by examining the effects of taxation and various … business regulations on cross-country corruption. Regulations considered include the number of procedures and related costs for … impacts corruption and the effects of non-monetary regulatory costs are more significant than monetary costs. Findings are …

and institutional weakness (corruption) aspects. Results, based on data from more than 131 nations, show that strengthened … supply chains reduced donations. The impacts of corruption and logistics performance likely persisted from pre-COVID times … vaccine deals. Finally, donations received through COVAX were driven by qualitatively similar factors, except corruption did …

dimensions, is broadly consistent with the greasing effects of corruption. While the study uses data from a single nation that is …