reform in order to improve the national fiscal transparency and to reduce corruption. Corruption is a growing phenomenon all …, corruption is associated with financial crime, fraud and bribery. Corruption is a major factor of reducing economic development …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of corruption on foreign direct investment … evaluate the impact of corruption on FDI activities.Findings – The empirical results illustrate that corruption is a … components of FDI – greenfield investment and cross-border M&As, are separately examined. Specifically, while corruption …

main findings are that the corruption of the political principals may induce a situation in which the bureaucracy is … bureaucracy, and that the corruption of the political regime and the level of economic development may also affect bureaucratic …

This article seeks to highlight in more depth the public levers of action in the implementation of anti- corruption … public measures on the extent of corruption at the national level. We manage to demonstrate that there is a common and …

community and formal enforcement, while corruption undermines it. We discuss how community can play an important role in a …

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …

This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both … government size and public investment have significant positive effects on corruption, while fiscal decentralization, citizen …

Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. This paper examines whether living … since, as we show, it comes at the expense of cutting food consumption. These findings suggest that corruption is a …