With a view to reducing the consequences of corruption in public procurement, many governments have introduced … debarment of suppliers found guilty of corruption and some other forms of crime. This paper explores the market effects of … with low competition it may deter corruption as long as firms value public procurement contracts in the future and there is …

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 etermining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …

The OECD’s new Public Integrity Indicators offer a credible alternative to existing corruption-related indices, as they … draw directly on data from member countries instead of expert views. The indicators unpack the general notion of corruption … curbing the most serious and detrimental forms of corruption such as undue influence, political and grand corruption – has not …

Korruption ist ein Thema, das in der Entwicklungspolitik lange Zeit tabuisiert wurde. Erst durch einen grundlegenden … Politikwechsel der Weltbank in den 1990er Jahren ist das Problem von Korruption in Entwicklungshilfeprojekten in den Fokus der … armen Ländern häufig grassierende Korruption zu bändigen. Wegen ihres Selbstverständnisses als Think Tank ist die von der …

This paper analyses the influence of the exchange rate regime of a country on the level of tolerated corruption with a … induce governments to intensify the fight against corruption. It is shown that if corruption has a considerable positive … impact on output, a tight peg regime can increase tolerated corruption. However, if corruption has a negative effect on …