, improvement of public procurement competitiveness, and reduction of corruption. The paper finds that information and … relationship between e-procurement and bureaucratic corruption …

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …

must also inspire confidence in those they serve. The authors use data from the Gallup World Poll, a unique and very large … corruption and confidence in public institutions. This suggests an important channel through which corruption can inhibit … in part a causal effect from corruption to confidence. The authors also show that individuals with low confidence in …

corruption. This study complements these cross-country studies by focusing on microeconomic factors that affect bribes paid in a … equilibrium level of corruption in the sector. On the side of bribe payers, enterprises that are more profitable, enterprises that … macroeconomic and political factors that previous studies have found to affect the overall level of corruption. …

financial, legal, and corruption issues that firms report as constraints, actually affect their growth rates. The results show … constraints in countries with underdeveloped financial, and legal systems, and higher corruption. So, policy measures to improve … financial, and legal development, and reduce corruption are well justified in promoting firm growth, particularly the …

toward corruption. They find women, employed, less wealthy, and older individuals to be more averse to corruption. The … authors also provide evidence that social effects play an important role in determining individual attitudes toward corruption …, as these are robustly and significantly associated with the average level of tolerance of corruption in the region. This …

control of corruption, rule of law, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, political stability, and voice and …'s even more widely-known aggregate index similarly reflects perceptions not only of corruption, as intended, but of the …

examining the issue empirically, by looking at the cross-country relationship between fiscal decentralization and corruption as … significantly associated with lower corruption. Moreover, they find that the origin of a country's legal system - for example, civil … decentralization, when so instrumented, and corruption is even stronger. The evidence suggests a number of interesting areas for future …

conceptual model and some empirical evidence. Assuming that corruption and bad governance reduce international trade and …-would devote more resources to building good institutions and would display less corruption in equilibrium. How is "natural … than a landlocked country. In the data, "naturally more open economies" do show less corruption even after their level of …

. Corruption may also weaken domestic financial supervision, with a subsequent deterioration in the quality in banks' and firms …