Making Bribery Profitable Again? The Market Effects of Halting Extraterritorial Accountability for Overseas Bribery
Edmund Malesky, Professor of Political Economy at Duke University and Director of the Duke Center for International Development (DCID)
Wednesday, November 12, 202512:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Webinar
ABOUT THE EVENT
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ABOUT THE TALK
What happens to the market when bribery is allowed?
Dr. Edmund Malesky presents "Making Bribery Profitable Again? The Market Effects of Halting Extraterritorial Accountability for Overseas Bribery," an article co-authored by Lorenzo Crippa, Edmund Malesky, and Lucio Picci. He will offer expert insight on the current non-enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FPCA) and will discuss the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Anti-Bribery Convention (ABC).
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Edmund Malesky is a Professor of Political Economy in the Political Science Department at Duke University and the Scientific Director of VinUniversity Green-X Research Center. From 2020 to 2024, he served the director of the Duke Center for International Development (DCID), a unit within Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy that advances international development policy and practice through interdisciplinary approaches to post-graduate education, mid-career training, international advising, and research. Malesky has published in the top journals in political science and economics and authored two books China’s Governance Puzzle: Enabling Transparency and Participation in a Single-Party State and Incentives to Pander. How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain. In 2019, Dr. Malesky was elected Chair of the Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) Council. In 2012, Dr. Malesky received a state medal from the Government of Vietnam for his role in promoting economic development for USAID’s Vietnam Provincial Competitiveness Index. In 2013, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on the board of the Vietnam Education Foundation.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
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Margaret Peters is Associate Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Chair of the Global Studies major at UCLA. She is also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research on the political economy of migration. She is currently working on a book project on how the process of forced displacement affects migrants’ sense of dignity and how these dignity concerns affect decisions of whether to move from the crisis zone, where to move, and when to return. She is additionally writing a book on how dictators use migration, including forced migration, to remain in power. Her award-winning book, Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization, argues that the increased ability of firms to produce anywhere in the world combined with growing international competition due to lowered trade barriers has led to greater limits on immigration, as businesses no longer see a need to support open immigration at home.
Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations, Department of Political Science