short essay

1.    Referring to Article 1, how is corruption defined in general?  What is the nature of corruption during the UN Oil for Food Program? Why do (don’t) firms engage in bribery in international trade?  Does corruption perception explain firms’ actual corrupt behavior?  Why, why not?

2.    Raise one specific research question that can extend one of the studies you read or more broadly in relation to this session topic, “firms, trade and corruption” assuming no data constraints in the world.  Justify why such question might be interesting and worth studying using one paragraph.