. Officials verify compliance to determine whether to grant permits, and may engage in either bribery or extortion. Without …) ties officials’ pay to these complaints makes deterring both bribery and extortion possible. Our proposed scheme does not …Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International’s Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey … and female owners perceived corruption to be lower relative to men. Furthermore, older firms perceived corruption to be a …

economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies …

The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … corruption by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on …