The agriculture sector in Indonesia has played a significant role in poverty reduction and economic transformation. However, challenges remain in improving agricultural productivity and farmers' incomes to eradicate extreme poverty and ensure food security. The agriculture sector accounts for...

We study how poor quality of institution, such as corruption in public procurement auction, could hurt welfare. We show how competition effect could improve the cost-efficiency but not the quality of a public procurement auction with corruption. In fact, no incentive mechanism can be efficient...

In this paper, we analyze daily-life corruption on the micro-level that affects average citizens in their daily lives. One way to illustrate this is by using what we call The Tipping Point model (Schelling, T., Micromotives and Macrobehavior, 1978). Similar to the spirit of Schelling's tipping...