corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

We analyze the effects of corruption and institutional quality on the quality of business regulation. Our key findings … indicate that corruption negatively affects the quality of regulation and that general institutional quality is insignificant … once corruption is con- trolled for. These findings hold over a number of specifications which include additional exogenous …

about the relationship between corruption and shadow economy activities. The paper highlights the interaction between the … underground economy and corruption using comparative analysis. It discusses the theoretical approach to shadow economic activities … and focuses on the determinants of the Romanian economy concluding that Romania record a high incidence of corruption and …

In Kazakhstan, uncover of numerous corruption scandals involving government officials has become almost a normal … feature of life. Behind the high-profile acts of waging a battle against corruption, however, is a serious and systemic … phenomenon. The most endemic form of corruption is the various transfers of funds in the state structures and national companies …

of the surveys have shown that at the examined institutions corruption risks are mainly connected with the public …, legal status and regulatory environment may emerge as corruption risks. Controls which are able to manage risks coming from … decrease the negative effects of the corruption risk enhancing factors (for example public procurement, EU subsidies). In …

Relatively little has been recorded about the relationships among ethnicity, corruption and conflict over urban land … extensive interviews with their occupants and officials and field observations, shed light on the roles of corruption and … urban land rights. In these cases, land conflict seemed to promote corruption and the use of ethnicity, while corruption and …

This study empirically explores the following issue: Does corruption fuel conspicuous consumption? It examines the … existence and magnitude of any potential corruption-effect on conspicuous consumption expenditure. Regression analyses of an … country with a high perceived corruption level, for example, CPI score of 4.5, as compared to a country with a low perceived …

Despite voluminous literature on corruption and the entry mode choices of MNCs in isolation, a comprehensive account … which details the mechanisms through which corruption impacts on MNCs’ entry modes is lacking. To overcome such a gap, we … systematically review and provide an up-to-date overview of the empirical literature on corruption and the entry mode choices of MNCs …

This article is about the role of the business sector in the fight against corruption in Portugal. By corruption it is … meant the abuse of office, public or private, for personal benefit or that of third parties. Some forms of corruption fall … business sector has in corruption are analysed, namely the initiatives recently taken to reduce the so-called “costs of context …