Globalization, governance and economic performance affect each other in very complex mutual relationships. In this … Paper, we establish a clear and well-circumscribed hypothesis: ‘Is there an effect of globalization on governance?’ To test … available theoretical explanations of causal relationships between globalization and governance. Microeconomic theory helps us …

Accurate citizen perceptions of corruption are crucial for the political process to effectively restrain corrupt … corruption in a road-building project in their village with a more objective measure of `missing expenditures' in the project. I … between corruption in a particular road project and general corruption in the village. The magnitude of their information …

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …

. We show that corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time. However, centralization … makes more difficult for citizens to detect corrupt incumbents. Thus, corruption is easier under centralization for low …

This paper reviews the theories of corruption in regulated sectors to further understand the impact of corruption and … attempt to draw out some of the broader lessons that can be learnt for anti-corruption policy in general. …

predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers …

when designing anti-corruption policy. …

This paper investigates the effect of corruption on competition in government procurement auctions. Our assumption is … corruption is to facilitate collusion in price between firms. This can result in high public spending and inefficient allocation … which unilateral anti-corruption controls may restore price competition. …