Beside its cost-efficient benefits, e-government plays an important role in reducing corruption. As most developing … countries, especially in Africa are fighting corruption, e-government is seen as a new way of addressing it. E-government is … thought to reduce corruption through increased transparency, better accountability and, the disappearance of the “middle …

Using a rich panel data base for firms in Asian countries, we assess the effect of public sector corruption on … corporate assets investment and tax payments. Our findings suggest that public sector corruption does not deter investment … environments. Moreover, the findings indicate that corruption exerts a quantitatively large negative effect on corporate tax …

increases current social capital and trust and reduces corruption in several public services. Past formal institutions can leave …

one of the most potent measures against corruption although it lacks any theoretical or empirical justification. We show …

, corruption of public officers, inefficiency of the labour judicial system). Provinces with better access to neighbouring … subjects, fewer corruption episodes and lower presence of organized crime should also be associated with higher flows of FDIs … projects, implying the investment of higher volumes of money. Similarly, higher levels of corruption are associated with larger …

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 …

In this study we investigate how both local environment and individual characteristics explain incidence of corruption …. More specifically, we explore how city size, and residing in a capital city influence the two aspects of corruption … corruption. Finally, we also investigate how access to elements of information and communication technology, individually and …

In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even they have democratic political … corruption levels. Our model based on the fact that corrupt officials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative positions. In a … probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead more corruption as more voters are part of the …