Mark Pieth
Biographic Data
| ID | 6550024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Pieth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Pieth |
| SIGNATURE | PIETH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1University of Basel, Switzerland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Report of the Expert Advisory Group on Anti-Corruption, Transparency, and Integrity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Recent corruption scandals have shown the negative effects that corruption may have in countries around the world, including those of the Latin American and Caribbean region. The Inter-American Development Bank has therefore convened an independent group of experts composed by eight governance and anti-corruption scholars and practitioners to identify innovative and effective approaches to combat corruption in the region. Drawing on the members’ …
Infrastructure and Construction
This chapter studies the infrastructure and construction sector, which is the second-most exposed to corruption, just after extractive industries. The reasons are rather obvious: typically, underdeveloped areas are most in need of motorways, bridges, railway lines, ports, and airports. Most always these projects are about big money. Competition is fierce amongst bidders and frequently government agencies in insufficiently governed states decide w…
Finance and the “Shadow Economy”
This chapter focuses on corruption in the banking and finance industry, and the steps that have been taken to combat the problem. Overall the financial services industry carries a heavy responsibility for large-scale corruption. Financial intermediaries and banks are used typically in grand corruption schemes by corporations, let alone by kleptocratic regimes, and frequently, they are fully aware of what they are involved in. To prevent them from…
What Have We Achieved?
This chapter reviews the progress that has been made over the last twenty-five years of fighting corruption. First, the issue has been pushed up on the political agenda, and governments are elected on an anticorruption ticket; others are deposed for corruption. Second, laws have been enacted in most nation-states, and even if enforcement remains uneven, the risks of being caught and subjected to trials have grown substantially. Additionally, ever…
Sports Governing Bodies
This chapter studies corruption in the sports arena focusing more specifically on the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). FIFA has recently been so much in the media as the lack of governance has allowed a vast graft and corruption network to evolve. If an association decides to distribute its funds amongst its members, this is hardly a crime—even if the stakeholders, who have an interest in the sports they govern, may be agg…
Collective Action
This chapter discusses the advantages of collective action. Collective action allows dealing with the wider context of corruption risks by assembling competitors and other stakeholders to come to agreement on ways to reduce corruption and the risks. Collective action has the additional advantage that it enables an entire business sector to manage expectations: in its talks with regulators and the wider public, it can indicate what it considers re…
Beyond Criminal Law
This chapter discusses administrative sanctions and preventive measures that go beyond criminal law to fight corruption such as states and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). They have developed a set of regulatory sanctions more directly aiming at the prevention of abuses by companies and individuals and protecting the interests of their respective institutions. Domestic procurement rules as well as the regulations developed by MDBs foresee c…
Why the Growing Concern About Corruption?
The need for action to combat corruption is paramount. Corruption undermines democratic institutions and the rule of law. This chapter describes the escalating public demand for action against corruption, including in China, Korea, India, South Africa, Nigeria, Brazil, France, Italy, Mexico, and the United States. Corruption hurts all parts of society but its most devastating effect is on the poor who are widely extorted by government officials t…
What Is Corruption?
After touching upon historical and legal definitions, this chapter defines corruption through a series of questions: Is there a common understanding what corruption means? Why has corruption been historically so ubiquitous, and why is it still nowadays such a widespread phenomenon? Is corruption really noxious? What made Western states and societies suddenly turn against corruption toward the end of the twentieth century? Are we successful in com…
Strengths and Limitations of Criminal Law
This chapter discusses the strengths and limitations of criminal law in controlling corruption. Some experts claim that criminal law misses the systemic nature of corruption, whereas others prefer prevention to prosecution. Regardless, there can be no question that prosecution of bribery is necessary. Various experiences with self-governing bodies have demonstrated that without the legal risk of prosecution self-regulation rarely works. The chapt…
Confronting Corruption
Corruption undermines nearly all key legal and developmental priorities today, including the effective functioning of democratic institutions and honest elections, environmental protection, human rights and human security, international development programs, and fair competition for global trade and investment. This book chronicles the global anticorruption steps taken since the movement advanced after the end of the Cold War. It provides a reali…
The OECD Convention on Bribery
The OECD Convention on Bribery established an international standard for compliance with anti-corruption rules, and has subsequently been adopted by the thirty-four OECD members and six non-member countries. As a result of the Convention and national implementation laws, companies and managers now risk tough sanctions if they are caught bribing foreign officials. The UK Bribery Act 2010 is only one example of this development. The second edition …
The OECD Convention on Bribery
The OECD Convention is the first major international treaty specifically to address 'supply-side bribery' by sanctioning the briber. The OECD Convention establishes an international standard for compliance with anti-corruption rules by 36 countries, including the 30 OECD members and six non-member countries, with the leading OECD exporting countries receiving particular attention. This book is an article-by-article commentary which gives particul…
Criminalizing the Financing of Terrorism
This article begins with the widespread expectation that ‘following the money trail’ would be an effective means of hampering terrorist activity. So far, however, that effectiveness has been less than certain, and financial services providers argue that, at most, they would be able to check names against lists (they are adamant that the risk-based approach does not apply here). Legal difficulties deepen the factual problems: bold statements in in…
The Prevention of Money Laundering
Criminalizing the Financing of Terrorism
This article begins with the widespread expectation that ‘following the money trail’ would be an effective means of hampering terrorist activity. So far, however, that effectiveness has been less than certain, and financial services providers argue that, at most, they would be able to check names against lists (they are adamant that the risk-based approach does not apply here). Legal difficulties deepen the factual problems: bold statements in in…
The Prevention of Money Laundering
Criminalizing the Financing of Terrorism
This article begins with the widespread expectation that ‘following the money trail’ would be an effective means of hampering terrorist activity. So far, however, that effectiveness has been less than certain, and financial services providers argue that, at most, they would be able to check names against lists (they are adamant that the risk-based approach does not apply here). Legal difficulties deepen the factual problems: bold statements in in…
The OECD Convention on Bribery
The OECD Convention is the first major international treaty specifically to address 'supply-side bribery' by sanctioning the briber. The OECD Convention establishes an international standard for compliance with anti-corruption rules by 36 countries, including the 30 OECD members and six non-member countries, with the leading OECD exporting countries receiving particular attention. This book is an article-by-article commentary which gives particul…
The OECD Convention on Bribery
The OECD Convention on Bribery established an international standard for compliance with anti-corruption rules, and has subsequently been adopted by the thirty-four OECD members and six non-member countries. As a result of the Convention and national implementation laws, companies and managers now risk tough sanctions if they are caught bribing foreign officials. The UK Bribery Act 2010 is only one example of this development. The second edition …
Infrastructure and Construction
This chapter studies the infrastructure and construction sector, which is the second-most exposed to corruption, just after extractive industries. The reasons are rather obvious: typically, underdeveloped areas are most in need of motorways, bridges, railway lines, ports, and airports. Most always these projects are about big money. Competition is fierce amongst bidders and frequently government agencies in insufficiently governed states decide w…
Finance and the “Shadow Economy”
This chapter focuses on corruption in the banking and finance industry, and the steps that have been taken to combat the problem. Overall the financial services industry carries a heavy responsibility for large-scale corruption. Financial intermediaries and banks are used typically in grand corruption schemes by corporations, let alone by kleptocratic regimes, and frequently, they are fully aware of what they are involved in. To prevent them from…
What Have We Achieved?
This chapter reviews the progress that has been made over the last twenty-five years of fighting corruption. First, the issue has been pushed up on the political agenda, and governments are elected on an anticorruption ticket; others are deposed for corruption. Second, laws have been enacted in most nation-states, and even if enforcement remains uneven, the risks of being caught and subjected to trials have grown substantially. Additionally, ever…
Sports Governing Bodies
This chapter studies corruption in the sports arena focusing more specifically on the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). FIFA has recently been so much in the media as the lack of governance has allowed a vast graft and corruption network to evolve. If an association decides to distribute its funds amongst its members, this is hardly a crime—even if the stakeholders, who have an interest in the sports they govern, may be agg…
Collective Action
This chapter discusses the advantages of collective action. Collective action allows dealing with the wider context of corruption risks by assembling competitors and other stakeholders to come to agreement on ways to reduce corruption and the risks. Collective action has the additional advantage that it enables an entire business sector to manage expectations: in its talks with regulators and the wider public, it can indicate what it considers re…
Beyond Criminal Law
This chapter discusses administrative sanctions and preventive measures that go beyond criminal law to fight corruption such as states and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). They have developed a set of regulatory sanctions more directly aiming at the prevention of abuses by companies and individuals and protecting the interests of their respective institutions. Domestic procurement rules as well as the regulations developed by MDBs foresee c…
Why the Growing Concern About Corruption?
The need for action to combat corruption is paramount. Corruption undermines democratic institutions and the rule of law. This chapter describes the escalating public demand for action against corruption, including in China, Korea, India, South Africa, Nigeria, Brazil, France, Italy, Mexico, and the United States. Corruption hurts all parts of society but its most devastating effect is on the poor who are widely extorted by government officials t…
What Is Corruption?
After touching upon historical and legal definitions, this chapter defines corruption through a series of questions: Is there a common understanding what corruption means? Why has corruption been historically so ubiquitous, and why is it still nowadays such a widespread phenomenon? Is corruption really noxious? What made Western states and societies suddenly turn against corruption toward the end of the twentieth century? Are we successful in com…
Strengths and Limitations of Criminal Law
This chapter discusses the strengths and limitations of criminal law in controlling corruption. Some experts claim that criminal law misses the systemic nature of corruption, whereas others prefer prevention to prosecution. Regardless, there can be no question that prosecution of bribery is necessary. Various experiences with self-governing bodies have demonstrated that without the legal risk of prosecution self-regulation rarely works. The chapt…
Confronting Corruption
Corruption undermines nearly all key legal and developmental priorities today, including the effective functioning of democratic institutions and honest elections, environmental protection, human rights and human security, international development programs, and fair competition for global trade and investment. This book chronicles the global anticorruption steps taken since the movement advanced after the end of the Cold War. It provides a reali…
Report of the Expert Advisory Group on Anti-Corruption, Transparency, and Integrity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Recent corruption scandals have shown the negative effects that corruption may have in countries around the world, including those of the Latin American and Caribbean region. The Inter-American Development Bank has therefore convened an independent group of experts composed by eight governance and anti-corruption scholars and practitioners to identify innovative and effective approaches to combat corruption in the region. Drawing on the members’ …
Language change (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Action (physics) (3 works) · Bribery (3 works)