culture of corruption. …

sister territories of the region. Agency cost theory is a useful theory to advise policy makers and policy administrators in …

Paper discusses the factors that contribute to the spread of corruption as well as the implications of corruption for … markets and for public sector activities. It is argued that corruption can be contained mainly by a scaling down of the public …

We construct local-level statistical indicators of corruption based on the number of reported crimes, on citizens … and we examine the impact that the presence of corruption, as measured by these indicators, has on personnel selection and … areas with higher levels of our corruption indicators. This effect is mainly observed among managers and highly qualified …

In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model … corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter penalties with the … eradication of corruption as the final goal. We propose an alternative approach which emphasizes why corruption arises in the …

What are the nexuses between corruption, bribery, and wait times in the public allocation of goods in developing … countries? This question has received scant attention in the literature. Consequently, we use queuing theory to analyze models … in which a good is allocated publically, first in a non-preemptive corruption regime and then in a preemptive corruption …