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Article: Regulation and corporate corruption: New evidence from the telecom sector
Title | Regulation and corporate corruption: New evidence from the telecom sector |
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Keywords | Telecommunications Regulation Corruption |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | Elsevier. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01475967 |
Citation | Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, v. 40 n. 1, p. 22-43 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business customers and service providers in the telecom sector. We match the World Bank enterprise-level data on bribes with a unique cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that (1) strong regulatory substance (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; (2) competition and privatization reduces corruption; (3) the effects of regulatory substance on corruption control are stronger in countries with state-owned or partially state-owned telecoms, greater competition, and higher telecommunication fees; and (4) bureaucratic quality exert substitution effects to regulatory substance in deterring corruption. Overall, our results suggest that regulatory strategies that reduce information asymmetry and increase accountability tend to reduce illegal side-payments for connections. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192340 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 2.429 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.817 |
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dc.contributor.author | Berg, SV | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Jiang, L | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lin, C | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-24T01:50:03Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-10-24T01:50:03Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, v. 40 n. 1, p. 22-43 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0147-5967 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192340 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business customers and service providers in the telecom sector. We match the World Bank enterprise-level data on bribes with a unique cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that (1) strong regulatory substance (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; (2) competition and privatization reduces corruption; (3) the effects of regulatory substance on corruption control are stronger in countries with state-owned or partially state-owned telecoms, greater competition, and higher telecommunication fees; and (4) bureaucratic quality exert substitution effects to regulatory substance in deterring corruption. Overall, our results suggest that regulatory strategies that reduce information asymmetry and increase accountability tend to reduce illegal side-payments for connections. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01475967 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Comparative Economics | en_US |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.rights | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Comparative Economics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in PUBLICATION, [VOL 40, ISSUE 1, (2012)] DOI 10.1016/j.jce.2011.12.001 | - |
dc.subject | Telecommunications | - |
dc.subject | Regulation | - |
dc.subject | Corruption | - |
dc.title | Regulation and corporate corruption: New evidence from the telecom sector | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jce.2011.12.001 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84856212058 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 40 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 22 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 43 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000300862800002 | - |
dc.identifier.ssrn | 1714451 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0147-5967 | - |