study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …

study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …

places endowed with more amenities. In the crossroad between these factors, this paper investigates corruption as key element …. Results suggest the dual role of push and pull mechanisms at play, as high corruption incentivizes Italian skilled mobility to … destinations that, instead, exhibit lower corruption. Moreover, sensitivity of the prospective tertiary students to corruption …

action became permanent features of the G20 agenda. Tackling corruption was one of them. Corruption is being characterised as … an international problem requiring collective corrective action. The G20 established an Anti-Corruption Working Group as … early as in 2010, at the fourth summit in Toronto, which sets the Anti-Corruption Action Plan for the G20 members. Over the …

that emergency measures, in the times of economic and social fragility, may result in corruption. This paper investigates … the potential threats of corruption due to fiscal expansion during the pandemic and discusses recent evidence from G20 … members on the mechanisms in place to address corruption. More generally, using available secondary data, the paper compares …

corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a "third-price lottery" in …

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional … level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher … heterogeneity, regulation, abundance of resource and state-owned enterprises substantially breed regional corruption. Moreover …

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … prediction. Moreover, the effect of democratization on corruption depends on the protection of property rights and income …

An influential body of scholarship argues that corruption behaves as a selffulfilling prophecy. The idea of this work … is that levels of corruption emerge endogenously as a result of a society-wide coordination game in which ther individual … returns to corrupt behavior are a function of how disposed towards corruption the other members of society are perceived as …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an … objective measure of corruption: the number of public officials convicted in a state for crimes related to corruption. Second …