daniels, porteny and urrutia et al make a good case for the idea that that public decisions ought to be made not only “in the light of” evidence but also “on the basis of” budget impact, financial protection and equity. health technology assessment (hta) should, they say, be accordingly expanded to consider matters additional to safety and cost-effectiveness. they also complain that most hta re...

It is believed that economic integration, in terms of increasing flows of trade and foreign direct investment, contributes to lower the level of corruption in host countries because integration increases market competition and efficiency, reduces rents, and promotes the diffusion of good governance. However, such kind of argument ignores the interactions between economic integration and local p...

We use a data set of federal corruption convictions in the U.S. to investigate the causes and consequences of corruption. More educated states, and to a less degree richer states, have less corruption. This relationship holds even when we use historical factors like education in 1928 or Congregationalism in 1890, as instruments for the level of schooling today. The level of corruption is weakly...

Why is corruption so resilient? While many recent papers examine interventions seeking to discipline bureaucrats, less is known about the citizen side of corruption. This randomized controlled trial is designed to explore three components of citizen supply of bribes in the context of roadway tolls in Kananga, D.R. Congo: individual financial cost, perceived social cost, and social norms. We off...

There has been a sea change in the ethos of medicine in India in recent decades. Academic dishonesty of an alarming nature has been reported in medical colleges. Moral degeneration and corruption have engulfed the establishment at the highest level. The head of the Medical Council of India was found guilty of corruption and stripped of his position a few years ago. Many professors in private me...

The increasing number of ethical investment funds shows how the need of ethics in asset management is growing up. In the same time, in some markets, autonomous agents are managing a larger number of financial transactions than human do. If many philosophers and economists discuss the fairness of different approaches for responsible investment, there is no strong proposition today about the impl...