Background: Corruption can refer to a wide variety of actions and/or behaviours, which makes establishing a clear definition difficult. Corruption is an inherently multi-level phenomenon. It can operate at Individual, group, organizational and industry level. This study defines corruption as...

Despite strong traditions of research into corruption and into telecommunications policy and regulation, the two are almost never combined, an absence that remains unexplained. One possibility is that it is “dangerous” in terms of physical harm, financial harm from defamation law suits or...

International organisations, like the UN and EU, have encouraged their member states for years to increase civil servants' compliance with particular codes of conduct. Romania represents probably one of the most advanced countries in attempting to legislate on civil servant ethics through its...

We follow 822 applicants through the process of obtaining a driver's license in New Delhi, India. To understand how the bureaucracy responds to individual and social needs, participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: bonus, lesson, and comparison groups. Participants in the bonus...

Operation Car Wash began in 2014 and brought to light corruption schemes within public procurement. It prompted Brazil to intensify its legal crusade against corruption and improbity. Brazil improved enforcement of rules long ignored, and it adopted legislation to face the new challenges. The...

We study the effects of a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that made it harder for prosecutors to bring corruption cases against public servants. We argue that this exogenous shock to anticorruption enforcement created a “protection racket”: regulated firms located in high-corruption states...

Regional government has important role in realizing good governance and free from corruption. These conditions will only be achieved through the fulfillment of certain preconditions and must look to the characteristics of regional government that in accordance with the form of the country. This...

Reducing corruption in the telecommunications sector requires licensing reforms. Liberalisation ignored known risks of corruption in both developing countries and in the telecommunications sector, allowing bribery, cronyism and nepotism to enter and to flourish. A discussion of past and present...

This paper addresses the effects of the revolving door phenomenon on the inequality of influence among firms. It shows that firms are not equal in their capacities to benefit from state connections. We first develop a theoretical model introducing the notion of "bureaucratic capital" and showing...

The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between the shadow economy and corruption as determinants of public debt in the Spanish Autonomous Communities. In addition, we construct a Corruption Perception Index for those regions. Our data constitute panel data for the period 2000–2012....