. Kleptocratic policies are more likely when foreign aid and rents from natural resources provide rulers with substantial resources …

The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption … policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage …

corruption of their subordinates as a byproduct of their efforts to implement their preferences using tax revenue. Within this …

charge of running the government acquire and retain rents in the process of doing so. We experimentally explore the … endogenous rents, and common-agency models. We adapt these models to a laboratory setting and test their main theoretical … to higher rents, which is one of the theoretical predictions of the parametrized electoral and common-agency models that …

Bigger governments raise the possibilities for corruption; more corruption may in turn raise the support for … redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize these insights in a … simple dynamic model. A positive feedback from past to current levels of taxation and corruption arises either when wealth …

transaction difficulties. But, such environments often also feature highly interventionist government, and even corruption …