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The public sector performance is increasingly present in research literature. Considered as a result of a complex public management process, it provides the feedback gained through new public decisions that lead towards a performance improvement. The perspective of direct and mutual correlations...
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audit risk by about 20 percentage points reduced the proportion of procurement processes with evidence of corruption by … about 15 percentage points and the share of audited resources involved in corruption by about 10 percentage points. We show … that these results are invariant to alternative corruption codings that have been used in prior literature. In contrast, we …
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percentage points. This reduction was driven entirely by irregularities involving mismanagement or corruption. In contrast, we …
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For public officials, the decision to engage in corruption is embedded into abroader set of career considerations. In … punctualevents such as anti-corruption audits. In this paper, we propose a model of corruption with career concerns. We show that … because bureaucrats have a long timehorizon, anti-corruption audits may have long- and short-term effects, triggeringeither …
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Over the last decade, some fifty countries around the world have adopted Freedom of Information Acts (FOIAs), which allow citizens to force the release of information from public offices. Here, we are interested in analyzing the determinants for adopting FOIAs. We apply a set of survival...
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Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …
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Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …
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Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …
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Firms often try to influence individuals that, like regulators, are tasked with advising or deciding on behalf of a third party. In a dynamic regulatory setting, we show that a firm may prefer to capture regulators through the promise of a lucrative future job opportunity (i.e., the...
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endemic corruption simply in terms of unprincipled behaviour. Rather, it is best understood in terms of institutional weakness …
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