to detailed accounts of local budgets and audit data on the associated fiscal corruption. Using the budget variables as … predictors, we train a tree-based gradient-boosted classifier to predict the presence of corruption in held-out test data. The … trained model, when applied to new data, provides a prediction-based measure of corruption that can be used for new empirical …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

Potential economic benefits of integrity and anti-corruption policies seem large. Nevertheless, much of the existing … paper reviews OECD’s involvement in integrity and anti-corruption agenda as well as available indicators of integrity and … anti-corruption policies and outcomes. It outlines avenues for future analysis that include assessment of public …

While there is substantial corruption in developing countries, the costs imposed by corruption on individuals and … households are little understood. This study examines the relationship between exposure to local corruption and mental health, as …-to-day petty corruption is positively associated with psychological distress. Our results are robust to a variety of specification …

This paper presents a new methodology to detect corruption in customs and applies it to Madagascar’s main port … the approach, but also triggered a novel manifestation of manipulation that rejuvenated systemic corruption. Tax revenue … losses associated with the corruption scheme are approximately 3 percent of total taxes collected and highly concentrated …

action became permanent features of the G20 agenda. Tackling corruption was one of them. Corruption is being characterised as … an international problem requiring collective corrective action. The G20 established an Anti-Corruption Working Group as … early as in 2010, at the fourth summit in Toronto, which sets the Anti-Corruption Action Plan for the G20 members. Over the …

corruption or are cheap talk. We find that firms with high ratings are domiciled in countries with low corruption ratings and … strong anticorruption enforcement, operate in high corruption risk industries, have recently faced a corruption enforcement … of corruption. They also report higher future sales growth and show a negative relation between profitability change and …

Level of economic development has been found to be among the strongest determinants of corruption level in cross …-country studies. Those studies use income per capita as a measure of level of development and found that higher level of corruption is … of the level of corruption and failing to include education may bias or over-estimate the importance of income. We …