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 …, discretionary procedure auctions are associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of …

Evidence from Uganda confirms that corruption retards development even more than taxation does …

We document evidence of corruption in Chinese state asset sales. These sales involved stakes in partially privatized … with deal attributes associated with misgovernance and corruption. Sales by "disguised" owners that misrepresent their …

absenteeism or shirking from legislative sessions; in contrast, non-pecuniary motives, proxied by home-country corruption …

Corruption is believed to be a major factor impeding economic development, but the importance of legal enforcement … versus cultural norms in controlling corruption is poorly understood. To disentangle these two factors, we exploit a natural … generates a revealed preference measure of government officials' corruption based on real-world behavior taking place in the …