This paper analyses the anti-corruption activities of 24 transition countries in the period 1999-2002. These activities … are divided into omnibus anti-corruption programmes, legislative reform aimed at tackling corruption, and adherence to … international anti-corruption conventions. The paper presents a new measure for determining the extent of anti-corruption activity …

then examines the possibility of curbing corruption by supervision, and secondly, by introducing competition among delivery … agents. It is argued that a supervisory solution eludes the problem because no hard evidence of the reduction of corruption …

as irregularities related to waste or corruption uncovered by auditors. Our unique dataset at the level of individual … inspections with irregularities related to waste or corruption by about 10 percent or 0.3 standard deviations. In contrast, we …

Previous studies on the effect of government size on corruption have produced mixed results. For the purpose of … explaining these ambiguous results, our study investigates the effect of government size on corruption by taking into account the … indicate that an increase in government size can lead to a decrease in corruption if democracy level is sufficiently high and …

We study the joint determination of corruption and economic growth. Our model can generate multiple equilibria when … complementarity between corruption and growth is sufficiently strong. Our estimates of the impact of corruption on growth take into … account that corruption is endogenous and that there may exist different growth/corruption regimes. In a cross section of …