We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …

corruption risks in public procurement in European countries. We use a contract-level dataset from 2006 to 2018 with more than 3 ….6 million observations downloaded from the European Union TED database. We consider control of corruption risks as a proxy for … or aspect of institutional quality, and the countries with high institutional quality (high ability to control corruption …

from distortion by corruption and/or supplier collusion. This paper concludes that additional measures are required to … protect the integrity of procurement processes in England and Wales through improving the distinct public procurement, anti‐corruption …