State capture and corruption are widespread phenomena across the globe, but their empirical study is still highly …-level contractual networks in public procurement. To this end, it first establishes a robust measure of corruption risks in public … high corruption risk organisations in the full contractual network of issuers and suppliers. These clusters and the density …

is therefore unsurprising that it is also one of the government functions most often vulnerable to corruption. While … there have been many qualitative accounts of high-level corruption in public contracting, it is only recently that … and support control of corruption …

Ever since the spectacular boom and bust cycle of the Spanish real estate industry, endemic corruption at the local …-explored political determinant, this paper investigates the effect of local and regional alignment in fomenting corruption at the Spanish … indicates that the democratic political process may be effective in corruption control if agreements can be reached to remove …

covering state politics, we construct new indices measuring illegal and legal corruption in the states. Illegal corruption is …; legal corruption is political gain in the form of campaign contributions or endorsements by an official in exchange for such … between illegal and legal corruption which is bidirectional …

for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of bidders or employing discretionary …

We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …

The paper explores the impact of EU funds on institutionalised grand corruption in public procurement during 2009 …-level public procurement information for all three countries. We develop a composite corruption risks indicator based on the … EU funds impact institutionalised grand corruption, first, by providing additional public resources available for corrupt …

This paper develops 30 novel quantitative indicators of grand corruption that operationalize 20 distinct techniques of … corruption in the context of public procurement. Each indicator rests on a thorough qualitative understanding of rent extraction … composite indicator of high-level corruption, the high degree of detail also reveals that many regulatory interventions have …

This paper studies how income tax rates are determined and how they are related to government corruption in the form of … equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and income tax rates are a negative function of government corruption. When rich … voters can bribe the government, an additional equilibrium with zero taxation is possible. The link between corruption and …