international commerce results in the potential for greater exposure to global demands for bribery. Bribery and corruption remains a … process. Our paper proceeds in eight parts. First, we discuss the bribery and corruption problem. Second, a discussion of the … believe this paper contributes to the bribery and corruption literature by exploring the potential benefits of the COSO …

support for this argument. -- asset stripping ; law enforcement ; corruption ; transition …

prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …

The article investigates the causes, essence, and peculiarities of corruption and the shadow economy, as well as how … between levels of corruption and the shadow economy in all Central and Eastern European countries. However, the degree to … which corruption impacts the variation in the levels of the shadow economy differs significantly in countries across the …

This working paper contains supplementary material to the paper Communism or Communists? Soviet Legacies and Corruption … the results described in the published paper. -- corruption ; transition economies ; path dependence ; Soviet legacies …

The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in informal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse bureaucratic corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less … corruption is significantly associated with hiding output …

about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political … and economic crises to assess what we can learn from the long-term effects of past crises on corruption. We hypothesize … corruption. We test our hypotheses using panel data for over 100 countries during the years 1800- 2020. The results suggest …