Do firms bribe government officials to reduce their costs or do bribe payments arise because of extortion from … countries and employing various estimation methodologies, this paper considers how bribery is associated with the potential for … lower bribes, then this is a sign that bribes come from extortion because the presence of such officials should not matter …

This paper explores the role of cultural transmission in extortion. Extortion is modeled as an asymmetric contest where … extortion and a fraction of people who take from others. The degree of extortion is decreased when: (1) extortion is less … abstain from extortion are more effective. A key finding is the existence of a complementarity between the effectiveness of …

non-transparent practices and corruption in global trade. Managing the disclosure of information about rules, regulations … bribery. Four different strategies are explained based on the different scenarios of transparency in international trade. The …

The aim of this research was to examine how organizational and individual factors, in concert, shape corruption. We … examined whether the ethical climate of organizations is related to corruption, and if so, whether it affects corruption … through individual motives for corruption. A large-scale questionnaire study was conducted among public officials (n = 234 …

nonfinancial reports is information on combating bribery and corruption. This study examines the impact of voluntary assurance on … from Turkey as participants. The extent of financial analyst reliance on the combating bribery and corruption report of a … combating bribery and corruption reports results in perceptions and decisions which are more favourable to the fictitious …

The paper uses a gravity trade model to examine the impact of corruption on bilateral trade using a data set comprising … OECD economies, new EU members and developing nations. Although the level of corruption of both the importing and exporting …

show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among …Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …

'administrative corruption', whereby firms engage in corrupt practices and bribery of government officials. We contrast the firm …This article investigates the relationship between corruption and firm performance in Greece using firm level data …. Corruption is overall negatively associated with firm size and growth at the firm level. We focus on the effect of …