The past thirty years have seen unprecedented international initiatives aimed at combatting corrupt practices. The net effect of such initiatives is that today there exists a sort of “hyper-norm” repudiating corruption that transcends national boundaries. Over the same period, Italy has...

The purpose of the article is two-fold:1) To provide an outline of the main results of our upcoming book Corruption Economic Analysis and Evolution of the International Law and Institutions, by focusing in particular on the economic findings along with the policies we deem must be widely...