that firms linked to members of China's supreme political elites — the Politburo — obtained a price discount ranging from … promoted to positions of national leadership. To curb corruption, President Xi Jinping stepped up investigations and … reduction in corruption of between 50.1% and 43.6% in the provinces either targeted by the central inspection teams or whose …

This paper examines how political corruption affects M&A activities. By exploiting the public enforcement of the anti-corruption … campaign across different regions in China, we find in a difference-in-difference (DID) setting that the reduction in … corruption increases cross-region takeover activities by 40% and deal volume more than doubles. Further analysis reveals that the …

public corruption to explain the significant cause of cross-country variation in immunization progress. We suggest that … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …

March and July 2021, we elicit willingness to act against fraud and corruption in the provision of health services by … the COVID-19 peak in their state of residence, we find evidence of a large and significant increase in anti-corruption … activism post peak. Our data suggest that this surge in activism can be attributed to heightened perceptions of corruption in …

In this paper, I study how anti-corruption shocks affect Chinese city leaders through political factions or social … investigated for corruption affects the city leaders' economic performances and policy outcomes. I find that college and workplace … evidence supports the explanation that the corruption investigation of officials initiates promotion competition inside the …

In this paper, I study the peer effects in corruption, or more specifically, how sharing hometown or college ties with … other officials who have been investigated for corruption affects an official's likelihood of being investigated for … corruption himself. In specifications including fixed effects to control for differences across cities and colleges, and using an …

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …

over the period 2003-2014 using rich micro-data on corruption and firms. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities … administrative firm level datasets and face-to-face firm surveys, we argue that corruption mostly acts as a tax on the local economy …

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …