Impact of Country Governance and Financial Development on Corporate Fraud Cases: A Cross Country Perspective
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https://doi.org/10.61506/01.00359Keywords:
Country governance, Financial development, Corporate fraud cases, Fixed effect model, Quantile RegressionAbstract
This study aims to examine the impact of country governance and financial development on corporate fraud cases across countries' perspectives from the year 2012-2018 by using country- wise data. This study runs different statistical models like descriptive, correlations, Random effect model, fixed effect model. This study chooses a fixed effect model based on the Hausman test and used Quantile regression for robustness and interquartile 0.25 to 0.75 difference regression models to find out the difference that the effect of variables are significant or insignificant at different quartile. The results of the different models show that country governance having a significant impact on corporate fraud cases and the association is negative thus improvement in country governance would expectedly reduce the corporate fraud cases. while financial development in terms of the financial market has a significant impact on corporate fraud cases and association is positive thus the development of a financial market where different financial products and instruments with less knowledge have the probability to be easily used for fraud. whereas financial development in terms of financial institutions having a significant effect on corporate fraud cases and the relationship is negative thus improvement in financial institutions like the security exchange commission of Pakistan and state bank would certainly minimize the corporate fraud cases.
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