This paper examines lobbying and corruption as alternative ways of dealing with regulatory obstacles. I propose a model … that firms who join lobby groups do not stop paying bribes to bureaucrats, and firms more impacted by corruption are no …

preconditions. This paper instead emphasizes the interplay between politics and bureaucracy. It suggests that corruption risks are … corruption risk measure including over 1.4 million procurement contracts. Both show a remarkable sub-national variation across … Europe. The study finds corruption risks significantly lower where bureaucrats' careers do not depend on political …

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 …

English Abstract: This paper explains theoretical framework that is applied to the problem of corruption and reveals … of both theoretical frameworks. While the agency theory should examine institutional conditions of corruption and the … method of its enforcement, the rent seeking fails to concretize corrupt action with rules determining how corruption is …

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 …

Regulation plays a key part in public service reforms. However, corruption and the risk of capture may undermine the … purposes of these reforms. Both cost and incentive based regulations carry corruption and capture risks. This document shows …

The paper investigates the effects of checks and balances on corruption. Within a presidential system, effective … government and elected, rather than appointed, state supreme court judges are associated with lower corruption and, furthermore …

Many variables have been proposed by past studies as significant determinants of corruption. This paper asks whether … their estimated impact on corruption is robust to alteration of the conditioning information set. A Global Sensitivity … corruption. These are: economic development, Protestant religion, colonial heritage, uninterrupted democracy and political …

Measuring high-level corruption and government favouritism has been the object of extensive scholarly and policy … develops two objective proxy measures of high-level corruption in public procurement: single bidding in competitive markets and … corruption: unjustified restriction of access to public contracts to favour a certain bidder. Corruption indicators are …