Working Paper 44: Perceptions of corruption and anti-corruption efforts in Bulgaria

Corruption and Anti-corruption in China: Challenges and Countermeasures

As in most of the developing countries, corruption is becoming one of the serious challenges in the process China is striding forward to modernization. However, corruption in China is different in nature and extent from that in other nations due to the political structure and reform policy China has implemented. This paper devotes to differentiating typologies of corruption, analyzing the cause...

Why Do so Many Anti-corruption Efforts Fail?

CRAWFORD SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND GOVERNMENT Corruption and Anti-Corruption

About the P About the P About the P About the P About the Policy Briefs olicy Briefs olicy Briefs olicy Briefs olicy Briefs This year the Crawford School of Economics and Government established an exciting series of Policy Briefs that provide three opinion pieces by researchers on a particular theme or topic. These briefs are designed to provide introductions into key public policy areas that a...

African Anti-Corruption Agencies: Challenges and Prospects

Corruption has become an issue of major political and economic relevance in recent years. This has led to a resurgence of interest in analyzing the phenomenon and the diverse forms that it assumes in developing politics with an expectation that democratization and economic liberation offer potential routes to dealing with the problem. Anti-corruption strategies range from institutional reforms ...

Nber Working Paper Series Anti-corruption Reforms and Shareholder Valuations: Event Study Evidence from China

The authors are grateful for comments from Sumit Agarwal, Raymond Fisman, Hongbin Li, and seminar participants at NBER’s May 2015 China Economy workshop, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, NUS Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Lingnan University. Randall Morck thanks the Bank of Canada for partial funding. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessa...