Financial Corporations’ performances and corruption indices around Europe 1996-2008

Bellavite Pellegrini, Carlo and Pellegrini, Laura (2013): Financial Corporations’ performances and corruption indices around Europe 1996-2008. Published in: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance , Vol. 6, No. 2/3 (2013): pp. 101-115.

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the increasingly relevant issue of corruption. Financial and economic literature has progressively focused its attention on the impact of corruption on the financial performances of listed companies, highlighting the existence of a negative relation between a Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and companies’ financial performances. Taking into account the performances of 311 intermediaries of the financial sector of 17 ountries belonging to both the Euro and the non-Euro area and listed without any interruption since 1996–2008, the analysis confirms that corruption affects corporations’ total investment returns.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: corruption; banks; insurance; financial companies; financial performance; Euro and non-Euro area; panel regression analysis; economics and finance.
• Subjects: G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance

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