Private sector companies develop a diverse set of political connections in high and low corruption countries alike …. Using political connections to gain advantage when competing for government contracts is a major form of corruption from … Denmark to Italy. Recognizing the difficulty of controlling this type of ‘grand’ corruption this chapter sets out to explore …

Using state level data on corruption convictions from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section (PIN … corruption convictions tend to be higher in politically important states. However, this effect decreases in magnitude and becomes … statistically insignificant when states have a governor of the same political party as the president. Thus, corruption convictions …

solution to the corruption problem …

endemic corruption simply in terms of unprincipled behaviour. Rather, it is best understood in terms of institutional weakness …

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …

show why corruption is a problem of the state rather than the market …

We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In … helps explain the connection between isolated capitals and corruption. In addition, we provide some evidence that this …

How does corruption in Central and Eastern Europe hurt economic growth? The paper explains theoretical framework that … is applied to the problem of corruption and reveals its application difficulties. Corruption may be understood as the … corrupt behaviour. Within comparison of both agency theory and rent-seeking we argue that corruption in general is the problem …

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 …

foreign direct investment (FDI) and corruption. The prevailing literature has produced confused and contradictory results on … this vital relationship due to errors in their measurement of corruption which are correlated with FDI inflows. When a less … biased operationalization is employed, we find clear evidence of corruption during both registration and procurement …