Corruption is a major obstacle to economic development. It reduces domestic investment,
discourages foreign direct investment, inflates government spending, and shifts government …

This essay reviews the relationship between natural–resource abundance and economic
growth around the world, and presents some new results. The principal reasons why …

Although corruption has attracted researchers' attention for more than 30 years, it remains
one of the most significant political challenges all countries face. Even though corruption …

I analyze corruption in international business, presenting a critical assessment of the topic
and providing suggestions for future research. I argue that corruption creates a laboratory for …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

We analyze the impact of home country uncertainty on the internationalization-performance
relationship of emerging market firms. Building on organizational learning theory and the …

This paper examines factors that determine citizens' tax-compliance attitude in Kenya,
Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa. Using the 2011–12 Afrobarometer survey data, we find …

Using several independent data sets, we investigate the relationship between gender and
corruption. We show using micro-data that women are less involved in bribery, and are less …

This paper tests the proposition that a free press may be a powerful control on corruption.
We find evidence of a significant relationship between more press freedom and less …

This paper uses a unique data set on corruption containing quantitative information on bribe
payments of Ugandan firms. The data have two striking features: not all firms report that they …