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 …

reduction in regulation in better funded localities. The findings are directly relevant to Indonesia where corruption is high …Bribes by firms in Indonesia arise principally from regulations --licenses and levies --imposed by local government … latter is capitalized into lower salaries needed by localities to compensate public officials. Localities in Indonesia are …

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 …

obstacles associated with corruption and weak institutions. We model these circumstances in a principal-agent framework with … economic corruption as an indicator of the strength of property right enforcement within a given country. We compare corruption … levels for a large cross section of countries in 1989 to subsequent FDI flows from 1990 to 1999. We find that corruption is …

possibility that some features of FDI host countries, such as bureaucratic corruption, may deter inward FDI, but are positively … explicitly into account corruption level in host countries and using a firm-level data set on investment projects in 24 …

literature: corruption may affect a country's composition of capital inflows in a way that makes it more likely to experience a …

This paper studies the impact of corruption in a host country on foreign investor's preference for a joint venture … versus a wholly-owned subsidiary. There is a basic trade-off in using local partners. On the one hand, corruption makes local … hand, corruption decreases the effective protection of investor's intangible assets and lowers the probability that …