Purpose This paper aims to provide a proper understanding of corruption in the private
sector, also known as the supply-side of corruption. It also presents the causes of corrupt …

This study analyzes how prevailing institutional arrangements ie, property rights, contracting
rights, political institutions, and corporate governance practices affect privatized firms' …

This empirical study examines the impact of property rights on intangible investments in sub-
Saharan African (SSA) non-financial firms using firm-level data. The study employs a local …

This paper illustrates a theory of the second best where the constraints to the achievement of
the optimum are of institutional nature. We consider the effects of corruption and bad …

This multi-case study paper analyses the influence of both nationalisation and privatisation
patterns on five major Latin American oil companies: Petrobras, PEMEX, PDVSA, Ecopetrol …

Using data on telecommunications from 1985 to 2022 in 103 countries, this article provides
evidence of a robust nonlinear relationship between privatization and corruption showing …

Behind the selection of location choices for services and retail sector, many factors work in
conjunction. This research tried to determine which factors had an influence on location …

We consider the choice to privatize the provision of a public good in a hierarchical model
with three layers: a Central Government, a decentralized agency and a (private or public) …