reduction in regulation in better funded localities. The findings are directly relevant to Indonesia where corruption is high … sources of tax or inter-governmental revenues reduce the need for regulation and corruption. The paper estimates a large …Bribes by firms in Indonesia arise principally from regulations --licenses and levies --imposed by local government …

when designing anti-corruption policy …

This paper examines the accuracy of beliefs about corruption, using data from Indonesian villages. Specifically, I … compare villagers' stated beliefs about the likelihood of corruption in a road-building project in their village with a more …' beliefs do contain information about corruption in the road project, and that villagers are sophisticated enough to …

This paper uses a randomized field experiment to examine several approaches to reducing corruption. I measure missing … expenditures in over 600 village road projects in Indonesia by having engineers independently estimate the prices and quantities of … suggest that traditional top-down monitoring can play an important role in reducing corruption, even in a highly corrupt …

This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic …

experiment with over 28,000 welfare program administrators and over 19,000 beneficiaries in Indonesia to elicit the 'marginal … disutility from corruption,' i.e., the trade-between more generous social assistance and losses due to corruption and fraud …. Merely mentioning corruption reduced perceived program success, equivalent to distributing more than 20 percent less aid …

Although the theoretical literature on corruption is well developed, empirical work in this area has lagged because it … has proven difficult to isolate corrupt behavior in the data. In this paper, we look for evidence of corruption in an … stables play a role in facilitating the corruption. In times of increased media scrutiny, the match rigging disappears …

This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …

less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid. On the contrary, according to some measures of corruption, more corrupt … governments receive more aid. Also, we could not find any evidence that an increase in foreign aid reduces corruption. In summary …