In this paper, the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows is analyzed. The literature is thus … far divided regarding the effects of corruption: One hypothesis argues that corruption greases the wheels of government … corruption measure from the World Governance Indicators of the World Bank is compiled. To further analyze the effects of …

This paper analyzes the causes of corruption in contemporary Bolivia. It argues that, along with the well …-documented observation that richer countries tend, on average, to be less corrupt than poorer ones, corruption is directly dependent on FDI … inflows, with higher levels of FDI associated with lower levels of corruption and vice versa. Additionally, the findings …

leading people by family ties, while corruption is a permanent risk for the economic system, but also for the country's legal … system. The purpose of this paper is to analyze nepotism, effects of nepotism, and to analyze the impact of corruption on the …

Whether and to what extent corruption drives emigration has received growing attention in the literature in recent … intentions and individual, as well as country-level measures of corruption, and propose to instrument the endogenous presence of … corruption in a country with the prevalence of cashless transactions in the economy to correct for potential estimation bias. We …

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether innovators perceive corruption to be systematically more … the innovation activity of the firms in the analysed countries, conditional on the fact that they consider the corruption … imply that there is a link between innovation activity of the firms, perceptions of corruption and the evaluation of …

Purpose - The theoretical debate of corruption's impact on economic growth remains unsettled, making it an empirical … question. This study aims to investigate corruption's effect on BRICS countries' economic growth. Design/methodology/approach A … employed to estimate a growth model as a linear-quadratic function of corruption that accounts for cross-sectional dependence …

corruption and public governance modulate this relationship. This study uses a cross-country analysis of 33 sample countries. The … that low levels of corruption and strong public governance played a role in suppressing high conforming tax avoidance … behavior in countries with strong FTR speakers. These insights underscore the significance of national anti-corruption efforts …