While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of analysis, research … is now increasingly focused on anti-corruption discourse and praxis. The latter analyses have generated numerous … criticisms of anti-corruption activities and anti-corruption research, and these are presented in this literature review. These …

Graft and corruption is considered to be one of the biggest threats to development. Several studies had shown the … tremendous impact of corruption in the economy. For a number of developing countries, a huge portion of government resources is … aims to contribute to the growing literature of understanding corruption in developing economies and creating the necessary …

the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by …Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout … enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil’s anti-corruption program, which randomly …

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …

of which is the reduction of corruption. First tests concerning the economic effects of JA are carried out drawing on the … absence of corruption within the judiciary as well as data gathered by the U.S. State Department as proxies. On the basis of …