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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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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spelling okr-10986-301342021-05-25T10:54:40Z A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption Escresa, Laarni Lucio, Picci CORRUPTION STATISTICS CORRUPTION INDEX PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC OFFICIALS BRIBERY CROSS-BORDER CORRUPTON 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. 2018-08-03T20:17:27Z 2018-08-03T20:17:27Z 2017-02 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30134 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research China
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topic CORRUPTION
STATISTICS
CORRUPTION INDEX
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PUBLIC OFFICIALS
BRIBERY
CROSS-BORDER CORRUPTON
spellingShingle CORRUPTION
STATISTICS
CORRUPTION INDEX
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PUBLIC OFFICIALS
BRIBERY
CROSS-BORDER CORRUPTON
Escresa, Laarni
Lucio, Picci
A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption
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description 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.
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author Escresa, Laarni
Lucio, Picci
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Lucio, Picci
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title A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption
title_short A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption
title_full A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption
title_fullStr A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption
title_full_unstemmed A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption
title_sort new cross-national measure of corruption
publisher Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate 2018
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30134
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