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The paper presents some empirical puzzles in the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption levels, and … corruption. In the presence of such multiple equilibria, the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption is no longer … that social welfare is decreasing in the incidence of corruption, across such equilibria …
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This review attempts to identify treatments of corruption that draw upon characteristics of underdevelopment either as … causes or as consequences. It focuses on three aspects of corruption in developing economies: red tape, rent-seeking, and the … the structure of corruption markets …
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-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …
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In a bribery experiment, we test the hypothesis that distributive fairness considerations make relatively well-paid public officials less corruptible. Corrupt decisions impose damages to workers whose wage is varied in two treatments. However, there is no apparent difference in behaviour.
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been shown to play an important role in the provision of public goods, corruption might strongly disrupt the ability of a …
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Corruption is a welfare issue worldwide, but it is difficult to study because of its secret nature. We here did a lab … economic experiment on bribery to study different compliance mechanisms through which people might be deterred from corruption … insights in the elaboration of strategies to combat corruption and norm transgressions …
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Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In … this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall …
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investigation of the channels reveals a reduction in corruption judiciary cases at treated customs, as well as a reduction of time … information technologies to improve efficiency and tackle corruption in public administration with important consequences for the …
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This paper studies the consequences of introducing competition between bureaucrats. Firms are supposed to invest into eliminating negative externalities of production, while bureaucrats administer the process by issuing licences. Some bureaucrats are corrupt, that is, they issue a licence to any...
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firms whose managers or owners have no friends or relatives among the bureaucracy …
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