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Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …
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those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …
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those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … by more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …
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We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …
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For public officials, the decision to engage in corruption is embedded into abroader set of career considerations. In … punctualevents such as anti-corruption audits. In this paper, we propose a model of corruption with career concerns. We show that … because bureaucrats have a long timehorizon, anti-corruption audits may have long- and short-term effects, triggeringeither …
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This paper argues that oil revenue management and public investment in Congo are vulnerable to corruption as a result … of limited transparency and accountability. Corruption has potentially contributed to poor macro-fiscal outcomes. The … paper acknowledges the authorities' anti-corruption efforts made so far and proposes further critical reforms to reduce …
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those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how counter-corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015151259
those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380447
The OECD’s new Public Integrity Indicators offer a credible alternative to existing corruption-related indices, as they … draw directly on data from member countries instead of expert views. The indicators unpack the general notion of corruption … curbing the most serious and detrimental forms of corruption such as undue influence, political and grand corruption – has not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013376932
those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358054