-electoral transfers in a world of full political credibility. The enforcement of a prohibition on vote-buying reduces the welfare of those …

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …

Bureaucratic reform is a priority of donor organizations, including the World Bank, but is notoriously difficult to … robust support for this argument. From a sample of 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, the paper …

finance, exposure to corruption, and sales growth. Relying on a data set of more than 70,000 firms in 121 countries, the … financial constraints than unaudited firms. On the other hand, audited firms face a significantly higher level of corruption … considerations of the endogeneity of auditing and to alternative measures of corruption and financial constraints. The findings …

Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government …

corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such relationship as well as using … superior and more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of … government) as the unit of comparative analysis. In contrast, previous analyses erroneously focused on subnational governments as …

Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and … Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …

policies of the current government could be improved (Matheson et al. 2007). This paper examines an attempt to de … government officials and experts as well as legal acts, available documents, articles, and personal interviews. The paper …

so requires information on the nature and magnitude of market failures on the one hand, and government's capacity to …

information and politician credibility. Parties organized around particular individuals, rather than around policy labels or a … voter information and political credibility, and to limit political budget cycles. Previous research has also shown larger …