The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (infirmal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in infirmal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

This paper argues that contracts induced by means of bribery should be valid. Nullity and voidability decrease the …. Thus, they run counter to effective anti-corruption. It is argued that other instruments are more suitable for preventing … corruption. …

This paper argues that contracts induced by means of bribery should be valid. Nullity and voidability decrease the …. Thus, they run counter to effective anti-corruption. It is argued that other instruments are more suitable for preventing … corruption. …

deter bribery. Governments may deter bribery either by high penalties and risks of detection, potentially supported by …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …. Officials verify compliance to determine whether to grant permits, and may engage in either bribery or extortion. Without … feedback, the government has no choice but to tolerate bribery, which leads to too many permits being granted and large …

Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. The present paper investigates …

Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. This paper investigates this …

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …