• An Economic Analysis of Debarment 

      Auriol, Emmanuelle; Søreide, Tina (Discussion paper;23/15, Working paper, 2015-09-17)
      With a view to reducing the consequences of corruption in public procurement, many governments have introduced debarment of suppliers found guilty of corrup- tion and some other forms of crime. This paper explores the ...
    • Combating Corruption: Investigative Journalists on the Frontlines 

      Moene, Kalle; Søreide, Tina (Chapter, 2019)
      Around the world, journalists uncover corruption, abuse of power, and financial misdealing – often at the risk of serious consequences or under financial constraints. These are also important issues in economic research. ...
    • Corruption and competition for resources 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Søreide, Tina (Discussion paper;18/2012, Working paper, 2012-09)
      An increasing share of world FDI is carried out by multinationals from developing countries. These investors may have objectives and constraints that differ from their developed country counterparts. In this paper we ...
    • Corruption and market reform 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Søreide, Tina (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-05)
      Market reforms in developing and transition economies have sometimes failed to deliver the desired welfare effects. Corruption may be an important reason for the inefficiency of market reforms, such as privatization ...
    • Fiscal corruption : a vice or a virtue? 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-07)
      Recent literature on tax administration in poor countries suggests there are virtues of allowing fiscal corruption. By strengthening the bargaining power of corrupt tax officers, it is argued that tax evasion may be ...
    • How middle-men can undermine anti-corruption reforms 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Torsvik, Gaute; Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-12)
      The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In the wake of the reform, a number of “tax experts” established themselves in the market, many of them ...