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Can the EU Replace the US in GRECO?
Yet another international body has lost the United States. After suspending FCPA enforcement, the U.S. has now formally withdrawn from GRECO this September, the Guardian reports — leaving a global leadership vacuum in a field where Americans were, for decades, the primary driving force behind international anticorruption standards. This moment raises a difficult question for…
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Working Paper – From Case Counts to Monetary Flows: Introducing a Dataset of Bribe Volumes in Cross-Border Corruption Cases
The BridgeGap Working Paper Series showcases cutting-edge research that bridges critical gaps in our understanding of corruption, its regulation, and the real-world impact of anti-corruption policies. Our latest publication, Working Paper 26-01, “From Case Counts to Monetary Flows: Introducing a Dataset of Bribe Volumes in Cross-Border Corruption Cases” by Felix Alshut, introduces a new dataset…
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What Makes Anti-Corruption Enforcement Work? New BridgeGap Research Explores the Role of Deterrence
A new publication from the BridgeGap consortium examines one of the oldest assumptions in anti-corruption policy: do tougher penalties actually deter corruption, or does effective enforcement depend on something else? Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have published a new article in the Regulation & Governance special issue “Efforts to Map and Control Corruption”,…