The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on the importance of big-time corruption in … the benefits of openness and transparency in tackling corruption in the public sector, the bureaucratization of service … provide useful insights on the context and causes of corruption, incentives to assure efficiency within the public bureaucracy …

This article examines the hydrogen partnerships between Germany, the EU and Egypt in the context of the EU's Carbon … Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). Germany, the largest future hydrogen importer in the EU, and Egypt, a country with an … ambitious hydrogen strategy, are developing a partnership to boost renewable hydrogen production in Egypt. However, high funding …

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

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 …

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 … 'administrative corruption', whereby firms engage in corrupt practices and bribery of government officials. We contrast the firm …