Public Governance: Nepotism, Preferential Hiring, and Other Partiality (Thaddeus Metz) -- Chapter 7: Anti-corruption …. Parenthetically, in 2001, a UNDP report found difficulties in applying anti-corruption laws and managing public institutions in the …. In this first volume, contributors discuss the practice of ethics, anti-corruption, and performance management, and …

What sorts of conditions make some countries more prone to corruption than the others? This is an important question … for understanding how corruption arises and how to combat it. The present paper attempts to answer this question by … exploring the link between the size of the country and corruption. Economic theory suggests advantages and disadvantages of …

Using firm-level data from more than 39,000 firms in 111 economies, this paper tests the hypothesis that corruption … between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …

This paper investigates the effect of corruption on competition in government procurement auctions. Our assumption is …

We study the degree of corruption in a hierarchical model of government. In particular, we explore the question of … whether adding a layer of government simply increases the total amount of corruption or generates an organizational efficiency … (via a principal-agent relationship between levels of government) that reduces the total amount of corruption. …