This article addresses the mediating effect of corruption on the influence of stringency of environmental regulation on … firms' voluntary environmental performance. Using panel data from adoption of the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS …) across European Union countries from 1995 to 2011, we unveil a direct and an interacting effect of countries' corruption and …

The book analyses the influence of corruption on economic growth and environmental protection, examining corruption … corruption on two important variables in human welfare: income and environmental policies. The material evinces the detrimental … effect that corruption has on economic growth and on the stringency of environmental policies. It also shows that standard …

empirical contribution to the debate -- Corruption and environmental policies : what are the implication for an enlarged EU …"The purpose of this book is to explore, in a broad perspective, how corruption affects economic growth and … approaches to corruption, of the relationship of corruption with environmental policies, the research questions, and the book …