RT Article
T1 The supply-side of international corruption: a new measure and a critique
JF European journal on criminal policy and research
VO 24
IS 3
SP 289
OP 313
A1 Picci, Lucio 1965-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1583651810
AB 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.
K1 Corruption
K1 International corruption
K1 Supply-side of corruption
K1 Measures of corruption
K1 Judicial statistics
K1 Bribe Payers Corruption Index
K1 Bribe Payers Index
K1 BPCI
K1 Bestechlichkeit
K1 Korruption
DO 10.1007/s10610-017-9362-1