rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and …/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total of these rents: the difference in reported subjective wellbeing … extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and …

rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and …/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total of these rents: the difference in reported subjective well … extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and …

to explore the impact of a country’s political environment on its level of corruption. The study provides strong evidence … urbanization are associated with a lower level of public sector corruption across all 121 countries. The colonial dummies and …

It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is … experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices …, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different …

Corruption scandals seem to abound in countries that have recently undergone reform. Despite the proliferation of …—actually causes an increase in corruption. Theory provides no guidance as to the direction of causality—on the one hand, reforms make … politicians accountable to voters, as well as introduce more competition, which should decrease corruption. On the other hand, the …

audit risk by about 20 percentage points reduced the proportion of procurement processes with evidence of corruption by … about 15 percentage points and the share of audited resources involved in corruption by about 10 percentage points. We show … that these results are invariant to alternative corruption codings that have been used in prior literature. In contrast, we …

This paper examines the relation between political corruption and the composition of public spending. A rent …-seeking model is used to describe political rent creation through the composition of public spending. Political corruption is … categories characterized by high-technology goods supplied by non-competitive industries varies positively with the Corruption …

Reducing corruption is one of the world’s many challenges. The fight against corruption is often discouraging. Yet …, Europe continues to advance its anti-corruption initiatives. While the fight against has seen some victories, significant … gains are few, especially in the Central and South European countries, where corruption is deeply rooted in the ordinary …