economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality …. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when they come from countries with low differences in corruption with Turkey …. Conversely, FDI flows are negatively affected when there exists a large difference in corruption between the investing country …

status are affected by regional differences in corruption. Using data from the Russian Parliamentary (State Duma) Elections … electoral system. The paper distinguishes between hard and perceived measures of corruption and analyzes the effects of … corruption on the voting shares of particular parties and on voters’ participation in elections. Additionally, a series of Monte …

The article studies dependence between the level of corruption and volume of direct foreign investment in a set of … countries. The initial hypothesis was that the general perception that countries with high corruption level can't enjoy the … Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), while Corruption Perception Index and Bribe Payers Index Calculated by Transparency …

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between perceived corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in … Egypt during the period 1970–2019. Using a novel back-casting methodology, it extrapolates perceived corruption time series … show a positive relationship between perceived corruption and FDI, supporting the “greasing the wheels” effect of …

of corruption. According to received wisdom, the link between globalization and corruption depends on the presence of … actors. Yet, the positive association between inward investment and corruption is mitigated in more developed economies … lowers opportunities for corrupt behavior. We test this nonlinear relationship between FDI and corruption in an instrumental …

This paper aims to study the determinants of corruption by examining specificities relating to the region and the level … (BMA) approach to address the issue of model uncertainty and identify the key determinants of corruption according to the … level of development and the region. Our results highlight the need for specific remedies in the fight against corruption …

We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and … investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960.2014. We relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial … accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that …