Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in...

We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability when this probability applies to their own...

The Building Foundations for Transparency project comes at a critical time when governments are making concrete steps to tackle corruption in public processes including public procurement, permitting and licensing.

We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability when this probability applies to their own...

This piece is intended to call the attention of directors, businessmen and company managers to a fact of great relevance. With the enactment of Law 12,846/13, its first and second articles imposed the accountability, administrative and civil liability of legal entities when of the perpetration...

This piece is intended to call the attention of directors, businessmen and company managers to a fact of great relevance. With the enactment of Law 12,846/13, its first and second articles imposed the accountability, administrative and civil liability of legal entities when of the perpetration...

Level of economic development has been found to be among the strongest determinants of corruption level in cross-country studies. Those studies use income per capita as a measure of level of development and found that higher level of corruption is associated with lower level of income. We argue...

Wenig ist für Regierungen moderner Demokratien von grösserer Bedeutung, als gegenüber ihren Bürgern Rechenschaft über die von ihnen erbrachten Leistungen abzulegen. Die Nützlichkeit des sogenannten Performance Management ist daher unumstritten. Doch während in einigen Politikbereichen die...

We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats for teachers and students. We find that the campaign was...

Social norms and conventions have formally been defined as pertaining to static sets of situations. In this paper, we introduce a slight variation of Cristina Bicchieri's definition, where the set of situations is dynamically determined by previous actions. To suggest how the definition may be...

This piece is intended to call the attention of directors, businessmen and company managers to a fact of great relevance. With the enactment of Law 12,846/13, its first and second articles imposed the accountability, administrative and civil liability of legal entities when of the perpetration...