Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across developing countries? Why are some countries … more effective at battling corruption than others? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption …-control throughout the conditional distribution of the fight against corruption using panel data from 46 African countries for the period …

We estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil … over the period 2003-2014 using rich micro-data on corruption and firms. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities … administrative firm level datasets and face-to-face firm surveys, we argue that corruption mostly acts as a tax on the local economy …

In this study, we investigate the correlation between corruption risk and the level of education in European sub … educational attainment is associated with lower corruption risk and a higher level of control of corruption, indicating that … better-educated locals may force authorities to limit corruption risk as they have less tolerance for corrupt behavior. In …

This paper studies the role of council size on government corruption in Brazil. We leverage on the discontinuous … corruption detected during federal audits. Results also show that having an extra councilor does not affect the size of the …