Listar06. Documentos de trabajo por tema "Corrupción"
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La analítica de redes como herramienta de integridad: el caso de la Procuraduría General de la Nación en Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-01-05)Este policy brief documenta la experiencia de la Procuraduría General de la Nación (PGN) de Colombia, en la adopción de la analítica de redes como herramienta para informar sus investigaciones en materia de lucha contra ... -
Corruption, Custom Reform and Firm Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-15)Customs are often prone to corruption because it concentrates a lot of discretionary power in the hand of custom agents who take decisions with high economic stakes for the firms, providing an opportunity for custom agents ... -
Criminal Dominance and Campaign Concentration
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-01-1)There are many journalistic and anecdotal accounts about the prevalence of electoral corrals in Brazil, geographic areas where brokers, politicians, or community leaders influence residents to vote for a specific candidate. ... -
DIGINTEGRITY: Digitally transforming the fight against corruption
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-02-23)The unprecedented corruption scandals in Latin America that have come to light in the last decade suggest that the region is facing structural challenges that combine endemic corruption with institutional weakness. The ... -
Estimating the nature of political corruption: evidence from a policy experiment in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-11-25)This paper proposes a test to estimate the nature of political corruption in developing countries: embezzlement by self enriching politicians versus corruption that originates as a quid-pro-quo from campaign contributions. ... -
Government transparency and political clientelism: Evidence from randomized anti-corruption audits in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-01-31)Political clientelism is considered a fundamental reason why politicians are not accountable and responsive to their constituencies. In this working paper, we study whether transparency initiatives – more specifically, ... -
Inside the revolving door: campaign finance, lobbying meetings and public contracts. An investigation for Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-01-21)This paper explores the relationship between political influence activities by interest groups and benefits obtained in the form of public contracts. We propose an electoral competition model where interest groups make ... -
¿Puede la digitalización del Estado ayudarnos en la lucha contra la corrupción?
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-09)La crisis causada por el COVID-19 en América Latina y el mundo ha obligado a los gobiernos a expandir el gasto fiscal para atender la emergencia sanitaria y económica. Sin embargo, el margen de maniobra de los gobiernos ... -
Self-Selection into Corruption: Evidence from the Lab
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-04-22)We study whether the existence of opportunities to extract rents in a job affects the type of individuals who are attracted to it. We design a laboratory experiment in which individuals choose between two contracts, each ... -
Tres preguntas sobre el uso de los datos para luchar contra la corrupción
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-04-15)Este documento discute tres interrogantes generalizados entre decisores de política pública sobre el uso que puede dársele a los datos, a la ciencia de datos y a las nuevas tecnologías para luchar contra la corrupción: ...