voting is fully deterministic. Second, corruption and inefficiencies arise as endemic phenomena of the political system …

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 …

How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …

This paper focuses on how corruption affects an important internationalization behavior of firms: the extent of control … most relevant, due to its broad effect on the economy, is corruption. Corruption can be thought of as anything that … specifically in the realm of M&A (see Weitzel and Berns, 2006). Although the level of corruption of the host countries is expected …

effect is strengthened in countries with lower level of public sector corruption and better functioning legal systems …

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …

A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …