level lower than the announced. We compute equilibrium corruption and we study the impact on corruption of the … influence equilibrium corruption and show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, corruption may well be increasing in …

Operation Car Wash began in 2014 and brought to light corruption schemes within public procurement. It prompted Brazil … to intensify its legal crusade against corruption and improbity. Brazil improved enforcement of rules long ignored, and …

Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the … indicator of grand corruption based on a wide range of elementary indicators. These indicators are derived from a rich … qualitative evidence on public procurement corruption and a statistical analysis of a public procurement data in Hungary. The …

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 …

is therefore unsurprising that it is also one of the government functions most often vulnerable to corruption. While … there have been many qualitative accounts of high-level corruption in public contracting, it is only recently that … and support control of corruption …

Denmark to Italy. Recognizing the difficulty of controlling this type of ‘grand’ corruption this chapter sets out to explore …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 …

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 …