supervisory and anti-corruption agency in Uganda. The first RCT aims to increase firms' information on available procurement …We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government … firms with access to structured information on other firms' perceptions and on anti-corruption audits. We find that …

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 …

for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of bidders or employing discretionary …

We examine the correlation between gender and bureaucratic corruption using two distinct datasets, one from Italy and a … second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our … Italian data, female procurement officials are 34 percent less likely than men to be investigated for corruption by …

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

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 …