We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …

of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that corruption … is going to decrease because of the efforts of the EU to fight corruption or because of the opening of the markets to …

The destructive role of institutional quality such as corruption has been considered an important factor for economic …. This research examines the institutional role in controlling corruption within the preview of CO2 emissions-economic growth … nexus for the European Union. The study evaluates the moderating impact of corruption on the relationship between CO2 …

identification of a further control variable affecting stock performances: corruption. The goal of this study is an enquiry about the … connections between European industrial stock returns and a macroeconomic index of corruption in order to assess the impact of … corruption in the performances of listed European industrial companies. This paper is organized as follows: the first paragraph …

by countries' political, institutional and legal characteristics and particularly by the level of perceived corruption in … notwithstanding, results indicate that corruption and poor institutional quality significantly interact with economic cofactors and …

investments. Furthermore, far too little attention has so far been paid to how corruption relates to the performance of foreign … should fight against informal payments in bureaucracy to create corruption free environments, so that multinationals are …