This Eurobarometer survey, first conducted in 2013, and repeated in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2023, is designed to explore the level of corruption perceived and experienced by businesses employing one or more persons in the following six key sectors: energy, mining, oil and gas, chemicals; healthcare...

This Eurobarometer survey, first conducted in 2013, and repeated in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2023, is designed to explore the level of corruption perceived and experienced by businesses employing one or more persons in the following six key sectors: energy, mining, oil and gas, chemicals; healthcare...

The 2023 Investigations Activity Report highlights our commitment to integrity and transparency in all our activities. The European Investment Bank Group (EIB) is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and has a zero-tolerance policy for any prohibited conduct. The Group's...

Systematic and efficient collaboration are key contributing factors to efficiency in anti-corruption efforts. Research shows Thailand's anti-corruption networks are decentralised. There are no formal central nodes responsible for coordinating between them. This makes the network not as efficient...

Upon the request of the authorities of Moldova, the Legal Department provided Technical Assistance on the establishment of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Judiciary (SAJ) in Moldova. The TA report provides analysis of the draft law on the Anti-Corruption Judicial System and other related laws,...

There is a clear and persistent inequality of bureaucratic employment between individuals with bureaucrat parents and those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how counter-corruption endeavors affect inequality in bureaucratic...

Why do some countries prosecute political corruption while others do not? The studies of judicial systems seem to place the answer to that question within the realm of the quality of judicial independence and the quality of judicial institutions designed to protect judicial independence. While...

Compliance with anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws is always a critical piece of any compliance program. In today’s environment, with global economies emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic and facing issues with inflation, supply chains and labor, this area is particularly challenging....

While anti-corruption policies are generally believed to be crucial for investment and economic growth, we argue that such policies may backfire by impairing local officials’ incentives to grow the economy in a society featuring weak formal institutions and a state-led development model where...

Using official information published by Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the CPC, we construct a database of officials who have been found guilty of corruption in China in the period 2012-21 with their personal characteristics and the amount of embezzled funds. We use it to...

FinTech is an emerging financial innovation model that promotes a "technological anti-corruption" effect. Credit corruption is a worldwide problem; however, previous studies have not focused on the anti-corruption effect of FinTech. This study first uses micro data from FinTech companies to...

Cheeseman and Peiffer (2022) field a survey experiment in Nigeria to test the effect of five different anti-corruption messages on participants' willingness to bribe public officials. They find that these messages generally fail to reduce bribes and could, in fact, increase bribes. They further...

Corruption is one of the thorny issues in any modern society, especially in China. The new leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by President Xi Jinping robustly initiated an anti-corruption campaign as soon as he took over as the party chief in the end of 2012. Several legal...

This paper studies the causal effect of corruption on the environment using a 2004 Heilongjiang anti-corruption campaign as a natural experiment. It examines the impact of the campaign on air pollution emissions of local enterprises using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy,...

IntroductionSports have always held a special place in our hearts - they inspire us, unite us, and bring us together in ways few other things can. But when corruption seeps into the sports industry, it not only tarnishes the spirit of competition but also erodes the trust and faith that fans...

Health, as an important human capital, is fundamental for bureaucrats to properly perform duties so as to deliver the function of the state. Based on a nationally representative longitudinal survey and using a difference-in-differences identification strategy, we study whether and how the recent...

The system of central discipline inspections has become a key anti-corruption governance tool in China since 2013. This paper investigates the impact of a central discipline inspection of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on initial public offering (IPO) underpricing. We find...

Organised crime tightens its corrupting influence on politics through violent intimidation. Anti-crime measures that increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On...