, 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 …

finance, exposure to corruption, and sales growth. Relying on a data set of more than 70,000 firms in 121 countries, the … financial constraints than unaudited firms. On the other hand, audited firms face a significantly higher level of corruption … considerations of the endogeneity of auditing and to alternative measures of corruption and financial constraints. The findings …

This paper seeks to find empirical evidence of a link between tax simplification and corruption in tax administration … between simpler tax regimes and corruption in tax administration. Corruption in tax administration is calculated with data … series from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey Database. The focus is on business taxes. The study includes 104 countries …

World Bank's Control of Corruption indicator, despite some important reservations and limitations, are the most valid …Sustainable Development Goal 16 is explicitly committed to measuring aspects of corruption over time, and the … various objective and subjective indicators of corruption, using the standard criteria of validity and reliability to identify …

Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government … transparency. In theory, the multi-stakeholder groups ideal is quite appealing -- each stakeholder has its own interest in the … Transparency Initiative, a new pilot program that aims to promote transparency in construction through the release of material …

corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such relationship as well as using … superior and more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of … governments, is shown to have significant negative effect on the incidence of corruption regardless of the choice of the …

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 …