promoted to positions of national leadership. To curb corruption, President Xi Jinping stepped up investigations and … reduction in corruption of between 50.1% and 43.6% in the provinces either targeted by the central inspection teams or whose … party secretary was replaced by one appointed by Xi himself. Accordingly, this crackdown on corruption has also …

This paper examines how political corruption affects M&A activities. By exploiting the public enforcement of the anti-corruption … corruption increases cross-region takeover activities by 40% and deal volume more than doubles. Further analysis reveals that the … behind these real effects on corporate investments. Reduction in corruption also leads to higher bidder returns and improves …

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …

Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout … the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by … enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil's anti-corruption program, which randomly …

public corruption to explain the significant cause of cross-country variation in immunization progress. We suggest that … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …

March and July 2021, we elicit willingness to act against fraud and corruption in the provision of health services by … the COVID-19 peak in their state of residence, we find evidence of a large and significant increase in anti-corruption … activism post peak. Our data suggest that this surge in activism can be attributed to heightened perceptions of corruption in …