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How China's Crackdown on Corruption Has Led to Less Transparency in Its Enforcement of Its Anti-Bribery Laws
Chow, Daniel C. K. - 2015
China's recent crackdown on government corruption and commercial bribery by multinational companies is widely known. As … part of this campaign against bribery, the Chinese government has promulgated a number of new laws against corruption and … against corruption and commercial bribery, ironically the crackdown on corruption has led to less transparency in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023669
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Chinese and South Korean Views on Accepting Bribes : An Empirical Study
McGee, Robert W. - 2017
One might think that bribery is always unethical. Studies by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development discourage the practice and a number of other studies have viewed bribery in negative terms. However, a closer examination of the issue reveals that the question of whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959975
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Bilateral Rent-Seeking and Growth of FDI Inflow in China : Theory and Evidence
Shu, Keng - 2019
This paper proposes a new theory so called bilateral rent-seeking to explain the dramatic growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow in China in the past several decades. We construct a Nash bargaining model to illustrate the relevance of how the reciprocal relationship between the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892654
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Constitutional Reform, Rent Extraction, and Economic Development in China
Congleton, Roger D. - 2011
This paper analyzes the constitutional history of China, with the aim of explaining how and why the policies that produced its rapid growth came to be adopted. The paper argues that constitutional reforms played important roles in China's economic development and are likely to do so in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175221
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Constitutional Reform, Rent Extraction, and Economic Development in China
Congleton, Roger D. - 2011
This paper analyzes the constitutional history of China, with the aim of explaining how and why the policies that produced its rapid growth came to be adopted. The paper argues that constitutional reforms played important roles in China's economic development and are likely to do so in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177799
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Rent Seeking and Government Ownership of Firms : An Application to China's Township-Village Enterprises
Che, Jiahua - 2003
Using its control of regulated inputs, a government agency extracts rents from a manager who undertakes an investment. Such government rent-seeking activity leads to a typical hold-up problem. Government ownership serves as a second-best commitment mechanism, through which the government agency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014032716
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The consequences of corruption: evidences from China
Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2010
With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272486
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Corruption and social interaction: Evidence from China
Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2011
the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of … corruption is positively associated with social interaction. Then we empirically verify the theoretical prediction using within … a statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings, therefore, underscore the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279504
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The Consequences of Corruption: Evidence from China
Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2010
With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168348
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The consequences of corruption : evidences from China
Bin Dong; Torgler, Benno - 2010
With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729042