Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

In the paper the nature of Russian corruption is considered along the lines proposed by D. North, J. Wallis, and B … redistributive rent allocated within patron-client networks is not a corruption phenomenon. The main factor that is able to destroy …

Reducing corruption is one of the world’s many challenges. The fight against corruption is often discouraging. Yet …, Europe continues to advance its anti-corruption initiatives. While the fight against has seen some victories, significant … gains are few, especially in the Central and South European countries, where corruption is deeply rooted in the ordinary …

audit risk by about 20 percentage points reduced the proportion of procurement processes with evidence of corruption by … about 15 percentage points and the share of audited resources involved in corruption by about 10 percentage points. We show … that these results are invariant to alternative corruption codings that have been used in prior literature. In contrast, we …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

Reducing corruption is one of the world’s many challenges. The fight against corruption is often discouraging. Yet …, Europe continues to advance its anti-corruption initiatives. While the fight against has seen some victories, significant … gains are few, especially in the Central and South European countries, where corruption is deeply rooted in the ordinary …

Corruption stands as one of the many obstacles to the political and economic security of the Eastern European region … European Union need to fight corruption collectively and individually. The task is difficult, but hope is justified because the … causes of corruption in this part of the region are similar and anti-corruption expertise is available. We believe that a …

We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …

We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …