determinants such as: corruption, regulation and bureaucracy, quality of public and government services, detection probability …

The article presents a study of the corruption perception and the involvement of SMEs in corruption practices. The main … goal of the paper is to provide an analysis of corruption perception of the SMEs representatives, its parts and research … methodology to provide an adequate picture and analysis of corruption of the Kazakhstan. For obtaining a comparative picture, we …

This study investigates bank income smoothing, focusing on the effect of corruption on the extent of income smoothing …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …

This paper argues that the effect of corruption on competition is dependent on the institutional environment. When … institutions are relatively efficient, observed corruption is likely to be associated with relatively less competition. Conversely …, in areas with low quality institutions (e.g., excessively burdensome regulations) corruption may lead to relatively more …