As a preliminary step in IACA's project entitled “Professorship on Collective Action, Compliance and (private sector) Anti-Corruption and Grants for IACA Participants from Least Developed Countries and Emerging Markets” under the Siemens Integrity Initiative, this paper reviews existing...

Compliance with anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws is always a critical piece of any compliance program. In today’s environment, with global economies emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic and facing issues with inflation, supply chains and labor, this area is particularly challenging....

Despite decades of failed anti-corruption efforts, most government organizations operate as if additional compliance-based efforts will curb corruption. This article offers an explanation for why many of the government ethics rules imposed on public agencies and their employees, and associated...

Corruption can arise in any bureaucracy with the authority to allocate benefits and impose costs. This paper articulates general economic principles that can help identify corrupt incentives and guide reform. It draws from models of bureaucratic behavior, especially the economic literature on...