issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable ("belief-based") protection indeed leads to more reports, both …

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 …

very little attention in the literature on corruption. I study a model of corruption with incomplete information in which … consumers require a government service from officials who may be corrupt. A victim of corruption can report corrupt officials to … which no one reports corruption regardless of the proportion of honest supervisors although all lower-ranking officials are …

to detailed accounts of local budgets and audit data on the associated fiscal corruption. Using the budget variables as … predictors, we train a tree-based gradient-boosted classifier to predict the presence of corruption in held-out test data. The … trained model, when applied to new data, provides a prediction-based measure of corruption that can be used for new empirical …

How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …

enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that …

dimensions, is broadly consistent with the greasing effects of corruption. While the study uses data from a single nation that is …

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …