This chapter summarizes the results of 19 studies that were conducted on the relationship between happiness and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

This article examines the relative tax burden of selected Asian economies from a microeconomic perspective. It employs data from the Tax Misery Index and the Index of Economic Freedom to compare the tax burden of selected Asian economies to that of some European and North American economies. It...

The present study addresses the question, “How serious is bribery?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of bribery to that of other selected acts. World Values Survey data for Greece were used to compare bribery to 18 other moral issues. Respondents...

The present study addresses the question, “How serious is bribery?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of bribery to that of other selected acts. World Values Survey data for Poland were used to compare bribery to 12 other moral issues. Respondents...

The present study addresses the question, “How serious is bribery?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of bribery to that of other selected acts. World Values Survey data for Romania were used to compare bribery to 18 other moral issues. Respondents...

The present study addresses the question, “How serious is bribery?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of bribery to that of other selected moral acts. World Values Survey data for the Philippines were used to compare bribery to 18 other moral...

In preparation for the 1998 soccer World Cup, France banned the use of soccer balls made with child labor. As a result of that ban, Baden Sports, the company that supplied the soccer balls, closed down its Pakistani soccer ball operations, which used child labor, and moved production to China,...

Most papers on transfer pricing deal either with technical aspects of the topic or strategy. Research on ethical aspects of transfer pricing is almost totally absent from the business literature and is scantly covered in the ethics literature. The purpose of this paper is to fill that gap....

The World Bank has published a series of reports on corporate governance as part of its project on the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC). The corporate governance principles in its ROSC Reports are benchmarked against the OECD’s Principles of Corporate Governance (OECD...