We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly etermining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …

High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to … institutional environment the corruptible employee’s or official’s decision to engage in corruption is affected by relative wages … of inequality, which indicate diminished prospects facing those convicted of corruption. In US states over 25 years we …

We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …

This analysis investigates a political corruption model that builds on previous literature on corruption in hierarchies …. Our study enriches the literature on political corruption emphasizing the contrasting role of the minorities having a … involved into the illicit activity and, eventually, spread the corruption disease. …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

The OECD’s new Public Integrity Indicators offer a credible alternative to existing corruption-related indices, as they … draw directly on data from member countries instead of expert views. The indicators unpack the general notion of corruption … curbing the most serious and detrimental forms of corruption such as undue influence, political and grand corruption – has not …

High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to … institutional environment the corruptible employee's or official's decision to engage in corruption is affected by relative wages … of inequality, which indicate diminished prospects facing those convicted of corruption. In US states over 25 years we …