insights into what determines corruption and how to design policy to combat it. We estimate the model using data from Brazil to …In this paper, we develop a dynamic model of politicians who can engage in corruption. The model offers important … measure voters' willingness to pay for various commonly-proposed anti-corruption policies, such as increasing audit …

enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil's anti-corruption program, which randomly …Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout … the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by …

Does combating corruption reduce clientelism? We examine the impact of a prominent anti-corruption program on …

We use China's recent anti-corruption campaign as a natural experiment to examine the (market expected) equilibrium … consequences of (anti-)corruption. We argue that the announcement of inspections of provincial governments by the Central … Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on May 17, 2013 represents a significant departure of past norms of anti-corruption …

subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …

possible to establish robust bounds on equilibrium corruption using only non-verifiable reports. Our analysis suggests a simple …

Corruption is a widespread phenomenon in many developing and transitional economies. China is a country in profile both … in the prevalence of corruption, and in its attempts to root out corruption. The recent anti-corruption campaign in China … also provides unusual amount of data to study the causes and consequences of corruption, which will have implications for …

government using randomized audits of public procurement in Brazil. On average, firms exposed by the anti-corruption program grow … details of thousands of corruption cases, through which we uncover a large heterogeneity in our firm-level effects depending … on the degree of involvement in corruption cases. Using investment-, loan-, and worker- level data, we show that the …

This paper analyzes how changes in the concentration of political power affect long-run development. We study Brazil …