This paper investigates the effect of corruption on bank profitability in Ghana using bank-level dataset spanning 2008 … relationship between corruption and bank profitability. This supports the "sand the wheels" view on corruption and controverts the … "grease the wheels" view, which hypothesizes that corruption boost firm performance. Controlling for bank-specific and …

Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic … freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on … techniques regressing one or some freedom indices on corruption that do not allow for grasping all the aspects of economic …

variables of inter-regional trade, human resource development, and corruption were investigated in six lower ….010%, intra-regional trade had an impact of 0.014%, and corruption control had 0.260%. Statistically, all variables have a … significant effect except for inflation. Furthermore, a bidirectional found in economic growth from the capital, corruption …

Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic … freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on … regressing one or some freedom indices on corruption that do not allow for grasping all the aspects of economic freedom as well …

This paper investigates the impacts of corruption, economic freedom, interest rate, capital regulation and transparency … on bank risk-taking in both theoretical and empirical analysis. The data were collected from 6 chosen ASEAN countries … information on corruption, economic freedom, interest rate, capital regulation and transparency is significant for the government …