One of the striking differences between competition law and anti-corruption is the manner in which agencies take into account the compliance efforts of companies in the context of their investigations. The European Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ”)...

As a preliminary step in IACA's project entitled “Professorship on Collective Action, Compliance and (private sector) Anti-Corruption and Grants for IACA Participants from Least Developed Countries and Emerging Markets” under the Siemens Integrity Initiative, this paper reviews existing...

In many societies, the power to punish is granted to a centralized authority. While the punishment of free-riders has been shown to play an important role in the provision of public goods, corruption might strongly disrupt the ability of a centralized authority to foster cooperation. In this...