Potential economic benefits of integrity and anti-corruption policies seem large. Nevertheless, much of the existing … paper reviews OECD’s involvement in integrity and anti-corruption agenda as well as available indicators of integrity and … anti-corruption policies and outcomes. It outlines avenues for future analysis that include assessment of public …

Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the … indicator of grand corruption based on a wide range of elementary indicators. These indicators are derived from a rich … qualitative evidence on public procurement corruption and a statistical analysis of a public procurement data in Hungary. The …

is therefore unsurprising that it is also one of the government functions most often vulnerable to corruption. While … there have been many qualitative accounts of high-level corruption in public contracting, it is only recently that … and support control of corruption …

This paper develops 30 novel quantitative indicators of grand corruption that operationalize 20 distinct techniques of … corruption in the context of public procurement. Each indicator rests on a thorough qualitative understanding of rent extraction … composite indicator of high-level corruption, the high degree of detail also reveals that many regulatory interventions have …

Public procurement can be highly vulnerable to corruption. This paper outlines a methodology and results in assessing … corruption risks in public procurement and their impact on relative prices, using large databases on government contracts and … corruption risk factor (aggregated in a synthetic corruption risk index). While there are intrinsic limitations to our study …

Why is corruption-defined here as the misuse of public office for private gain-perceived to be more widespread in some … countries than others? Different theories associate cross-national variation in the extent of corruption with particular … analyzes which of various plausible determinants are significantly related to several indexes of "perceived corruption …

politicians may have to engage in political corruption and management. The presence of a well-informed electorate in a democratic … setting explains between one half and two thirds of the variance in the levels of governmental performance and corruption …

This paper provides evidence of a consistent gap in the value of cultural goods exported from Italy and the value … corruption and adoption of protective legislation (UNESCO and UNIDROIT) and discuss results indicating further questions to be …

Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each … only help reduce corruption and improve efficiency - in a large number of customs agencies -- if the customs agency …'s director undertakes a big-bang approach to reform. We also find support for the corruption clubs theory - that customs agencies …