Whistle-blowing is seen as a powerful tool in containing corruption, although theoretical findings and experimental … initiate corruption actively, in order to assess the full effect of whistle-blowing. In our laboratory experiment we find that … the effect of symmetrically punished whistle-blowing is ambiguous since it reduces the impact of corruption on productive …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

(the jurisdictional power). Basing our affirmations on the model, we can say that corruption may have declined in Italy …

This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …

We let students play a corruption game, embedded into a variant of the ultimatum game. Those allotted the role of … public servants chose between whistleblowing, opportunism and reciprocity by delivery (of a contract) and those acting as … businesspeople chose how to frame the game and whether to blow the whistle. While opportunism and abstaining from whistleblowing is …

corruption and tax compliance. We do this through a leniency program. In our experiment we nest collusive corruption within a tax …