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Is Corruption Really Bad for Inequality? Evidence from Latin America
In this paper the authors present new evidence regarding the relationship between corruption and income inequality. They use panel data to show that in Latin America lower levels of corruption are correlated with higher income inequality. The authors’ contribution is two-fold. Firstly, they provide an empirical investigation of the link between corruption, a mechanism that is most commonly used to explain the region’s problems, and inequality in Latin America. Secondly, their findings challenge empirical work in other regions of the world, which find corruption and inequality to be positively related, while building on recent theoretical findings that the relationship between corruption and inequality is non-monotonic. They use four-year panel data over the period of 1982-2002 for 19 Latin American countries.
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Interactions among intergovernmental organizations in the anti-corruption realm
This article maps Intergovernmental Organisations (IO)s working in the anticorruption realm and their relationships. It argues that these organizations will seek to cooperate with others as long as by doing so they do not become dependent on their partners’ resources. The analysis has interesting implications for those trying to promote more efficient allocations of international anticorruption resources.
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Does Democracy Produce Quality of Government?
This is a recently published article in the European Journal of Political Research which looks at democracy's conditional relationship with Quality of Government (QoG). This article examines the relationship between political regimes and quality of government (QoG), which is defined broadly and measured empirically as ‘controlling corruption, having an effective bureaucracy and a strong, impartial rule of law’. The authors ask the broad question - which type of political regime - democracy or dictatorship - provides better QoG? Based on several earlier studies, it has been shown in the literature that this relationship is 'j-shaped', meaning that when democracy is measured on a continuous scale, countries in the middle are outperformed by both strong democracies and strong autocracies on average.
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The Rise of the Prosecutorial Efforts in Foreign Corruption: Lessons Learned from Recent FCPA Cases
Mr. Ong’s article is a concise and compelling piece published this year about legal enforcement trends of the U.S.’ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”). It is an easy-to-read retrospective which offers insightful suggestions to corruption regulators the world over. It encourages us to re-examine what existing legal tools we have at our disposal and how to cleverly use them to our advantage as anti-corruption advocates. He demonstrates that we don’t need to reinvent the wheel in order to strengthen the anti-corruption legal framework and its enforcement.
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The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques
The paper empirically analyze the illicit trade in cultural property and antiques, taking advantage of different reporting incentives between source and destination countries. The authors generate a measure of illicit trafficking in these goods based on the difference between imports recorded in United States’ customs data and the (purportedly identical)
trade as recorded by customs authorities in exporting countries. This reporting gap is found to be highly correlated with the corruption level of the exporting country as measured by commonly used survey-based indicies, and that this correlation is stronger for artifact-rich countries. The analysis provides a useful framework for studying trade in illicit goods. Further, the results provide empirical confirmation that survey-based corruption indicies are informative, as they are correlated with an objective measure of illicit activity.
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