governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of states in India, we empirically show that higher …India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic …

also by country institutional factors. This study focuses on the roles of public governance in firm financing patterns. To … conduct a natural experiment that avoids endogeneity, we identify 23 corruption scandals involving high-level government … persist even if we only focus on the connected firms that were not directly involved in the corruption cases. The relative …

Despite decades of failed anti-corruption efforts, most government organizations operate as if additional compliance …-based efforts will curb corruption. This article offers an explanation for why many of the government ethics rules imposed on public … instead the adoption of values-based ethics programs and practices to reduce corruption. (This abstract is not in the original …

While the existing literature has emphasized the role of governance in controlling corruption, they have paid less … attention to its multidimensional nature. With this background, this paper identifies the configuration(s) of governance … dimensions inducing a high control of corruption (low corruption) across Indian states using Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative …