Undertaking and facilitating research is a central element of IACA’s mandate and helps to support the organization’s programmes and activities around the world. By making these outputs available to a broad audience, IACA intends to position itself as a centre of innovative thinking in anti-corruption and compliance.

Below is a small sample of research publications.

Research Papers

IACA professors and researchers conduct original research in the areas of collective action, compliance, and (private sector) anti-corruption with the aim of establishing new benchmarks and practice-oriented approaches.

 

	Research Paper No. 1	A Review of Benchmarking Studies on Anti-Corruption Compliance Programmes	Han-Kyun Rho
	Research Paper No. 2	AML/CFT and Anti-Corruption Compliance Regulation: Two Parallel Roads?	Eduard Ivanov
	Research Paper No. 3	The Compliance Role: A Proposal for Improved Understanding	Han-Kyun Rho
	Research Paper No. 4	The Anatomy of Corruption Practices: A Theoretical Framework for a ‘Macro’ Analysis	Andrea Minto
	Research Paper No. 5	Defining Whistleblowing	Ruggero Scaturro
	Research Paper No. 6	The Use of Intermediaries in Corrupt Deals: Lessons from the Petrobrás Case for Compliance Officers	Diogo Moretti
	Research Paper No. 7	Collective Action Theory Applied to Anti-Corruption Practice: A Bolivian Case Study	Martin Zapata
	Research Paper No. 8	Academic Study on the Potential Nexus Between Corruption and Migration: The Case of Forced and Irregular Migrants in Sweden	Iryna Mikhnovets
	Research Paper No. 9	The role of compliance in the fight against corruption in aid and in particular in the humanitarian sector	Malika Aït-Mohamed Parent
	Research Paper No. 10	Changing Winds and Shifting Sands: Enforcement, a Driver for Corporate Behavioural Transition Towards Compliance, Even in Cases of Voluntary Disclosure	Mallika Mahajan
	Research Paper No. 11	Inhibiting Factors for Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SMEs) Participation in Anti-Corruption Collective Action. A Case Study of the Malawi SMEs	Ipyana Musopole
	Research Paper No. 12	Does corruption end in the safe heaven: the voice of refugees in the destination country	Iryna Mikhnovets
	Practical Tool	Overview of Anti-Corruption Compliance Standards and Guidelines	Eduard Ivanov

 

Master’s Theses

Below are some examples of master’s theses by graduates of IACA’s Master in Anti-Corruption Studies (MACS) programme for which independent research was conducted. Publication of MACS theses on the IACA website is an ongoing process, and we will add more works as we secure the authors’ permissions for online publication. Hard copies of all MACS theses are available in the IACA library.

	Measuring the Effectiveness of Canadian Whistleblowing Law	Frédéric St-Martin 2012 - 2014 Class
	Corruption Prevention and Control in the Humanitarian Space: Paving the Way from Naivety to Compliance	Malika Aït-Mohamed Parent 2014 - 2016 Class
	Institutional Corruption: The Australian Department of Defence’s Achilles Heel	Michael Callan 2014 - 2016 Class
	Reforming the System of Asset Declarationin Malaysia as a Strategy to Combat Corruption	Chin Chin Hong 2014 - 2016 Class
	Collusion in Public Procurement and Bureaucratic Corruption: Uncertainties, Transaction Costs, and Institutional Change	Diogo Moretti 2014 - 2016 Class
	Institutional multiplicity and coordination in the fight against corruption: Comparative study between El Salvador and Guatemala	Gabriela Ibarra 2015 - 2017 Class
	Rents, Rent-Seeking and Corruption in Transnational Labour Migration: A Case Study of Labour Migration from Bangladesh to Malaysia	Rezaul Karim 2015 - 2017 Class
	Repairing Institutions for the Adoption of Anti-Corruption Strategy by Variously-Sized Firms: A Case Study of Indian Customs	Mallika Mahajan 2015 - 2017 Class
	The Influence of Incentive Structures on Collective Action: The Case of Anti-Corruption Collective Action in Malawi	Ipyana Musopole 2015 - 2017 Class
	The impact of corporate settlements on incentives for international cooperation in multijurisdictional bribery cases	Renato Capanema 2016 - 2018 Class
	The impact of institutional arrangements for anti-corruption efforts on combating corruption	Maureen Mwalabu 2016 - 2018 Class
	Assessing the Role of the Anti-Money Laundering Framework in Curbing Corruption of Politically Exposed Persons. A Case Study of Banks in Uganda	Timothy Bacwa 2016 - 2018 Class