results of an extensive ethnographic field study of the 2006 to 2008 Siemens corruption scandal. We find that this event did … corporate corruption with regard to its regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It is therefore particularly … perspective we reconstruct the development of the institutional context of the phenomenon corruption as well as its effects on the …

welfare through their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of ?pure …? corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central … bank employees and governors, even though corruption in the central bank is obviously possible. By the very nature of their …

in and that put their clout for the fight against corruption in question. Against this background, three novel anti-corruption …. What is more, legislation can also take advantage of these chinks to fight corruption effectively.In Section II it is … United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) are used as benchmarks. In addition, the respective legal provisions …

relationships'. The focus of the paper is on how and why corruption occurs in trustee decisionmaking, especially concerning … community development projects. Implications are drawn from the model of corruption for current debate over the proper scope of … systematic nature of corruption and the potential harm occasioned by corrupt trustee decisionmaking. It is also argued that the …

There is growing consensus on the view that corruption hurts economic performance by reducing private investment, by … –, corruption also has adverse distributional effects as it hurts the poor disproportionately. For a given level of government … budget and national income, high corruption countries achieve lower literacy rates, have higher mortality rates, and overall …

information sharing via credit bureaus/registries on corruption in bank lending. Using the unique World Bank data set (WBES …Building on the important study by Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine [2006. Bank supervision and corruption in lending … information sharing reduce lending corruption, and that information sharing also helps enhance the positive effect of competition …

framework of Tsebelis by adding corruption stages and show that this can imply such a correlation of payoffs. Another …

feature of corruption. We also investigate implications of the stability of the corrupt regime for the dynamic extortion and …

economy. Government favors corruption and so fails to build efficient institutions. On its side, civil society exerts pressure … on Government to constrain it to halt corruption. We distinguish between an authoritarian Government and an unrestrictive … monitoring always increases as corruption increases, but civil monitoring is low and institutions improve much faster under …