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 …

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

-authors on corruption, ethical leadership, and social contracts theory, and relates that literature to corrupt activities by … corporate executives. Corruption is defined broadly to encompass executive self-dealing, which harms their firms. The specific … example, to propose a framework aimed at improving corporate governance and preventing future executive corruption. The …

This paper studies the impact of corruption on inward foreign direct investment using a unique firm-level data set. It … examines two effects of corruption simultaneously: a reduction in the volume of foreign investment and a shift in the ownership … structure. Corruption makes local bureaucracy less transparent and hence acts as a tax on foreign investors. Moreover …