Two decades of empirical evaluation have shown that corruption has a negative impact on economic growth, political … stability, judicial effectiveness, democratization, educational attainment, and equality of income. However, corruption exists … incentives and disincentives for corrupt behavior. However, lab studies on culture and corruption have led to some puzzling …

Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government …, private sector, and civil society organizations, to drive implementation at the local level and serve as a force for … transparency. In theory, the multi-stakeholder groups ideal is quite appealing -- each stakeholder has its own interest in the …

A potential concern with survey-based data on corruption is that respondents may not be fully candid in their responses … proportion of reticent respondents varies across groups of interest, comparisons of reported corruption across those groups can …

and are confirmed for mixed religion ethnic groups. The data are consistent with more favorable processes following … religion confirm that Muslim widows are significantly less likely to be dispossessed of their late husband's property or to be …

Sustainable Development Goal 16 is explicitly committed to measuring aspects of corruption over time, and the … various objective and subjective indicators of corruption, using the standard criteria of validity and reliability to identify … paper finds that the aggregate survey-based indicators of corruption, especially the Corruption Perceptions Index and the …

This paper considers the possibility of collective action by the business community to counter corruption in the award … historians and contract law scholars. The institution in this context comprises a no-bribery norm, a community system to detect … probability of winning the license or contract through bribery. An improvement in the government's formal anti-corruption …

corruption. Market participants engaging in corrupt practices enjoy lower production costs -- maybe because they pay a bribe to … avoid installing the environmental safeguards required by law -- such that honest players are driven out of the market when …

Research on the economic consequences of corruption has been hampered by the inability to directly measure corruption …. Using an innovative methodology that allows respondents to report individual experiences with corruption while minimizing … business corruption in Bangladesh. The analysis shows that traditional measures of corruption underreport the extent of …