financing increases with freedom from corruption, rule of law, quality of regulations, and decreases with court disputes. We …

enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that …

This study aims to determine the impact of tax administration and corruption on firm self-financing in Africa. The … paper also explores the level at which tax administration and corruption are firm financing obstacles and whether these … controlled for country, firm diversity, and survey year. The study reveals that corruption reduces a firm's self-financing by …

degree of corruption. …

lead to equilibria, where politicians receive corruption bribes. Furthermore, the model implies a non …-monotonic relationship between financial openness and corruption and a positive relationship between financial openness and government size …

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 …