It is believed that economic integration, in terms of increasing flows of trade and foreign direct investment, contributes to lower the level of corruption in host countries because integration increases market competition and efficiency, reduces rents, and promotes the diffusion of good governance. However, such kind of argument ignores the interactions between economic integration and local p...

This paper is aimed to analyze the multiple forms and faces of corruption, its typology and levels. The analysis begins reviewing a typology categorizing political corruption, economic corruption and public administration corruption and showing some examples of typologies, establishing the levels of corruption and indicating where can be encountered. It is concluded that corruption is just as m...

We use Transparency International’s ratings of self-reported anticorruption efforts for 480 corporations to examine factors underlying firms’ efforts and their consequences. We find that firms with high anticorruption efforts are domiciled in countries with low corruption ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement, operate in high corruption risk industries, have recently faced a corruption ...

Contemporary information systems are generally built on the principle of segregation of data and processes. Data are modeled in terms of entities and relationships while processes are modeled as chains of events and activities. This situation engenders an impedance mismatch between the process layer, the business logic layer and the data layer. We discuss some of the issues that this impedance ...

— Does democracy suffer when corruption is high? Unfortunately, most studies of corruption have been descriptive, making it difficult to develop a well-supported answer to this question. There are, of course, quantitative corruption measures, but the most popularly used of them are measures of corruption perception aggregated at the national level, rather than corruption experience at the indiv...

[Abstract] Corruption has recently risen to the top of the development agenda, particularly in the transition economies. However, existing empirical research has been hampered by the lack of detailed and comparative data on the problem. We use the data from the ongoing Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to unbundle corruption into its specific constituent components ...

We introduce a protocol for schema evolution in a globally distributed database management system with shared data, stateless servers, and no global membership. Our protocol is asynchronous—it allows different servers in the database system to transition to a new schema at different times—and online—all servers can access and update all data during a schema change. We provide a formal model for...