Eeckhout, Tom; Natkhov, Timur; Polishchuk, Leonid; … - 2022
We offer a novel big data approach to corruption detection and measurement by using statistical anomalies in publicly … observable allocations which corruption affects in a predictable manner. While each individual incidence of corruption remains … undetectable under the veil of secrecy, systemic corruption changes distributions of observable outcomes, and thus leaves …