The supply-side of international corruption: a new measure and a critique

I consider the supply-side of corruption in the context of international bribery, which I define as firms bribing public officials abroad. I present the Bribe Payers Corruption Index (BPCI), a non-perception-based measure of cross-border corruption coherent with a simple analytical framework based o...

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1. VerfasserIn: Picci, Lucio 1965- (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2018
In: European journal on criminal policy and research
Jahr: 2018, Band: 24, Heft: 3, Seiten: 289-313
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Corruption
International corruption
Supply-side of corruption
Measures of corruption
Judicial statistics
Bribe Payers Corruption Index
Bribe Payers Index
BPCI
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Korruption
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Zusammenfassung:I consider the supply-side of corruption in the context of international bribery, which I define as firms bribing public officials abroad. I present the Bribe Payers Corruption Index (BPCI), a non-perception-based measure of cross-border corruption coherent with a simple analytical framework based on an important distinction: that between the propensities to corrupt and observed levels of corruption. The BPCI is compared with a widely known indicator of the supply-side of corruption, Transparency International’s Bribe Payers Index (TI-BPI), which I demonstrate to be flawed. Whereas according to the TI-BPI firms from corrupt countries are more likely to bribe abroad, the opposite emerges when the BPCI is considered. I explain and discuss such results, the implications of which are framed within the global discourse on the supply-side of international corruption.
ISSN:1572-9869
DOI:10.1007/s10610-017-9362-1