Andy Spalding
August 25, 2015
In a prior post on the FCPA Blog, we observed a pattern that surprised ourselves and many others: signatories to the OECD Convention that allow facilitating payments have a significantly better average ranking on the Corruption Perceptions Index than those countries that prohibit them.
Several readers, apparently no more comfortable with this statistic than we were, suggested other correlations worth exploring.
My excellent research assistant at the University of Richmond School of Law, Dust Knight, and I tried a few.… Continue Reading