The second annual Chief Economist Workshop, organized by the Bank of England's Centre for Central Banking Studies (CCBS), brought together economists from more than 30 central banks. It was part of CCBS's program of events to provide a forum for central bankers and academics to exchange views on...

This paper considers the distributional dynamics of a well-known corruption index. Specifically, we are interested in evaluating whether corruption is best characterized as multimodal (i.e. pointing to clusters of countries with persistently different levels of corruption) and whether there have...