industries sector: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (hereafter the EITI) and the EU Directives. Moreover, the … comparison of selected provisions regarding information disclosure orders of the EITI Standard 2019 and the EU Directives. The … study briefly discusses the meaning of the good governance concept and the significance of the principles of transparency as …

The paper reviews the debate about transparency in extractive industry commodities trade. It examines the obstacles to … improved transparency. A critical review of the experience with estimating losses from a lack of transparency concludes that … important transparency and responsible sourcing initiatives are reviewed. The initiatives appear to have had some positive …

The paper looks at the key challenges facing the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative … (EITI) in two former Soviet countries, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Generally the EITI is playing a very significant role in … rich countries. EITI implementation in a country sends a message to international investors and companies about government …

of offshore entities as an indicator of corruption risk. We find that the number of new shell companies increases by 11 … the award of an exploration licence increases the risk of corruption. Consistent with rent-maximising behaviour, this … association is stronger when the price of oil increases. Our work informs the fight against corruption, proposing greater …

Non-transparency is a term given in this paper to a set of government policies that increase the risk and uncertainty … corruption, unstable economic policies, weak and poorly enforced property rights, and inefficient government institutions. Our … empirical analysis shows that the degree of non-transparency is an important factor in a country's attractiveness to foreign …

policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid …

-rich countries. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was founded in 2003 to address this problem through … study shows in a panel of 81 countries that joining the EITI increases the ratio of FDI inflows to GDP on average by around …