A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and perception-based measures, considers the extent to which di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Escresa, Laarni, Lucio, Picci
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30134
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Summary:A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and perception-based measures, considers the extent to which differences between them are driven by systematic factors, and concludes that they are not. As more data on cases of cross-border bribery incidents become available, the PACI will provide an increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption.