Capasso, Salvatore; Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2018
Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual … enforcement (conviction rates) and enforcing institutions. Results based on data for more than 80 countries show that piecemeal …