Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

Recent firm-level surveys suggest that petty corruption is a serious problem for African firms, costing the average … bribes in monetary terms and firms that report them as a percent of sales, and the sensitivity of the corruption question … bribes when they report them in percentage terms. If this is the case, petty corruption might be far less costly than the raw …

The paper presents some empirical puzzles in the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption levels, and … corruption. In the presence of such multiple equilibria, the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption is no longer … that social welfare is decreasing in the incidence of corruption, across such equilibria …

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials …

This paper shows why some countries are trapped in an equilibrium with high unofficial economic activity and corruption … unofficial economy and corruption activity …

This paper examines the issue of controlling fiscal corruption by providing incentives to fiscal officers. First, a … case study of a successful attack on corruption is presented that shows the importance of attending to the conditions of … consistency with optimization behavior. It confirms that simply providing bonuses is not enough. Corruption at higher levels of …

corruption after controlling for the effects of political institutions and economic development. We find strong evidence that … accounting environment plays only a minor role relative to the strength of political institutions in the control of corruption … challenge the view that countries intending to reduce corruption should invest in higher-quality accounting standards. Our …

-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …