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Four Uncharted Corners Of Anti-Corruption Law: In Search Of Remedies To The Sanctioning Effect, Andrew B. Spalding
Four Uncharted Corners Of Anti-Corruption Law: In Search Of Remedies To The Sanctioning Effect, Andrew B. Spalding
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This Article is the third installment in a long-term research project that examines the effects of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in relation to its underlying policy goals. It first reiterates the various data points showing that enforcement now has the unintended effect of reducing investment in higher-corruption markets. Because this amounts to the withdrawal of capital from developing countries in protest of their political conditions, I call this the "sanctioning effect." The paper then seeks to push the envelope of current anti-bribery debates by exploring connections to four fields of academic inquiry not typically associated with the FCPA. …