Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Monday, July 30, 2018

30/7/18: Corruption Perceptions: Tax Havens vs U.S. and Ireland

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Transparency International recently released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index, a measure of the degree of public concerns...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

24/5/18: America, the Medici Cycle and the Corporate Powers in Politics

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A recent paper by Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago, titled "Towards a Political Theory of the Firm" (NBER Working Pap...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

25/4/18: Draining of the Washington Swamp Reveals Mulvaney

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Quote of the month, if not of the year, belongs to yet another Trump Administration 'draing the swamp hero, Mick Mulvaney, currently t...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

22/4/17: Two Regimes of Whistle-Blower Protection

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“Corporate fraud is a major challenge in both developing and advanced economies, and employee whistle-blowers play an important role in un...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

21/5/2105: The Darker Side of Transparency?

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World Bank paper published earlier this month and titled "The Dark Side of Disclosure: Evidence of Government Expropriation from Worl...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

6/3/2014: Defending Ireland's Tax Regime Requires Reforms

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from February 16, 2014. Last week, Irish Government delegation to the OECD'...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

3/12/2013: Corruption Perceptions Index 2013: Ireland

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Transparency International has published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index 2013. Ireland rank in the global corruption table moved ...
Monday, April 2, 2012

2/4/2012: Impact of the middle class on economic, social and political institutions

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A fascinatingly interesting study of the effects the middle class has on economic, social and political institutions. The World Bank Poli...