We reconsider the question of what determines corruption at the cross-national level, using new data and methods … corruption, as are freedom of the press, political rights, the presence of established democratic institutions, the salience of … the relational factors that we consider affect corruption, beyond the effects that they often have on bilateral trade …

I consider the “supply-side” of corruption in the context of international bribery, which I define as firms bribing … public officials abroad. I present the “Bribe Payers Corruption Index” (BPCI), a non perception-based measure of cross …-border corruption, which is coherent with a simple analytical framework based on an important distinction: that between the propensities …

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …

countries of the world. Over the years, the G20 agenda has evolved to include pertinent issues for both developed countries and … action became permanent features of the G20 agenda. Tackling corruption was one of them. Corruption is being characterised as … an international problem requiring collective corrective action. The G20 established an Anti-Corruption Working Group as …

that emergency measures, in the times of economic and social fragility, may result in corruption. This paper investigates … the potential threats of corruption due to fiscal expansion during the pandemic and discusses recent evidence from G20 … members on the mechanisms in place to address corruption. More generally, using available secondary data, the paper compares …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …

indicator for prosecutorial independence based on data from the World Justice Project to answer these questions. We find that … of prosecutorial corruption. For police officers, we find that prosecutorial independence is not decisive, but … prosecutorial corruption matters for whether suspected misconduct is likely to be prosecuted. …

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 …

real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust …