High levels of corruption in a country could be detrimental to the overall well-being of the
economy. Although legal enforcement mechanisms are in place for most countries …

There is a growing interest in understanding how religion affects corruption. Using provincial-
level panel data from 1998 to 2009, this paper investigates the effect of religious beliefs on …

The influence of corruption convictions on government trust is complicated. On one hand,
they may reflect the severity of corruption in a jurisdiction. On the other hand, they might …

Political corruption is a complicated issue, with pundits, scholars, and armchair theorists
speculating on what makes politics so seemingly corrupt. The US agency tasked with …

Although the topic of corruption in South Asia has attracted a great deal of attention, extant
research on individual-level factors is sparse. With this background, this paper examines the …

We used a grounded theory approach to examine how business leaders in emerging
markets cope with pervasiveness of bribery both psychologically and behaviorally. We …

Corrupt officials sometimes rationalize their unethical actions as a psychological defense
mechanism, presenting them in an alternative, morally neutral, context. However, there have …

Background: E-government is an initiative taken by governments worldwide to align the
administration of their countries. Governments have utilized the internet as part of a …

Abstract Researches on Anti-Corruption have found that politics, economics, and culture
have a relation to corrupt practices. However, what about the influence of religion on …

This paper explores the effect of country‐level religiosity on corruption in bank lending. By
using the World Business Environment Survey, we find that firms in more religious countries …