Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the … significantly more likely to prevent corruption in public procurement, a key area of illicit interactions between the state and … limit corruption, but also foster the use of violence as an alternative tool to influence policymaking …

Local governments suspected of Mafia infiltration can be dismissed in Italy through an administrative act not …

enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that …

increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to … retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On the other hand, anti-corruption measures might also induce criminal …

This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …

combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 …

combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 …

growth using the electoral results of the regional Committee in Italy where in 1995, the mixed electoral representation has … in which corruption affects regional growth depends on the proportionality of the electoral system …