Corruption: Top Down or Bottom Up?.

We study the degree of corruption in a hierarchical model of government. In particular, we explore the question of whether adding a layer of government simply increases the total amount of corruption or generates an organizational efficiency (via a principal-agent relationship between levels of government) that reduces the total amount of corruption.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Waller, C.J. ; Verdier, T. ; Gardner, R.
Institutions:	Laval - Laboratoire Econometrie
Subject:	CORRUPTION \| SOCIETY \| ECONOMIC MODELS \| GOVERNMENT

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Series:	Laval - Laboratoire Econometrie.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	19 pages
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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