How innovation programs fail and innovation networks deviate from legal paths is a problem not yet fully understood. The complex interdependence between blockages of innovation and organizational corruption is a novel field of research in innovation studies. Equally, traditional approaches to...

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.

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 intimidation game -- Return to a troubled country -- Confronting the oil scammers -- A twisted budget process -- Opaque deals and international scams -- Public service scams : ghost workers, ghost pensioners, and embezzlers masquerading as reformers -- Anti-feminists, ethnic jingoists, and...

La 4e de couverture indique : "Depuis les années 1970, on assiste à une tentative de moralisation de la vie politique. Par des biais parfois très différents, certains pays ont cherché à clarifier les modes de financement de la vie politique afin de lutter contre la corruption et...

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...

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...