Despite the abundance of theoretical and empirical studies on corruption, identifying successful anti-corruption strategies remains a challenge. This paper tests the effectiveness of an anti-corruption policy that is often discussed among practitioners: an increase in competition among offi cials providing the same good or service. In particular, we investigate whether overlapping jurisdictions...

Corruption is a phenomenon that has received global attention from academics, policy makers and international donors. may be defined as the abuse of power for private gain. Activities include bribery, extortion, rent-seeking behaviour, cronyism, patronage, nepotism, embezzlement, graft engagement with criminal enterprises. However, nepotism gift giving are frequently viewed in many Asian Africa...

In corruption cases it was found that in substance a crime of trading influence had occurred, but because the act not been criminalized into Corruption Crime Act, so these were often processed using Articles Bribery and Gratification incidentally perpetrators state administrators, even though is mostly carried out by political figures, both administrators those who are has major on government o...

It is indisputable that fatwa plays a significant role in the society. This case because fatwas played considerable growth and gradual change of Islamic substantive law. However, eventhough an important part religious authority, how one fatw? effective influencing people’s attitudes behavior being questioned. article explains extent to which Majelis Ulama Indonesia’s (MUI) could be changing att...

Worldwide studies show that society sees a direct link between bribery and leader, regardless of whether this leader is an official public law or the head private enterprise. Global legal regulations recommendations international organisations say role (both at country level within individual organisation) crucial in development integrity environment organisation. The article devoted to study c...

In voting theory, bribery is a form of manipulative behavior in which an external actor (the briber) offers to pay the voters to change their votes in order to get her preferred candidate elected. We investigate a model of bribery where the price of each vote depends on the amount of change that the voter is asked to implement. Specifically, in our model the briber can change a voter’s preferen...

Does bribery help or hurt firm growth? Some suggest that bribery greases the wheel of commerce, while others believe that bribery sands the wheel of growth. We argue that firms endogenously choose their level of bribery according to their environments and that the benefits and costs may differ for different types of bribery. Specifically, small firms are more likely to be forced to engage in br...

Corruption often involves bribery, when a briber suborns power-holder to gain advantages usually at cost of moral transgression. Despite its wide presence in human societies, the neurocomputational basis bribery remains elusive. Here, using model-based fMRI, we investigated neural substrates how decides accept or reject bribe. Power-holders considered two types brought by taking bribes: connivi...

"Petty corruption and honesty in all health care systems" is the original title of one of the bioethics networks within the worldwide study projects of the International Association of Bioethics. As the coordinator of this network, it still puzzles me why the word "petty" is in the title when in the past few years-through interviews and questionnaires involving 18 countries-it has become eviden...