and applications include political groups, ethnicities, agents motivated by the work in the public sector and corruption … that patronage may be strictly positive in both of them. We also apply the second setting to the case of corruption. …

The goal of this paper is to propose a simple paradigm for understanding rent seeking and corruption in the growth … economy is shown to fall into a trap of high rent seeking/corruption and low growth. Agents' perceptions about the external … rent seeking/corruption. Finally, our paradigm yields insights into the relationship of R&D, politicoeconomic equilibrium …

predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers …

How can a non-democratic ruler provide proper incentives for state bureaucracy? In the absence of competitive elections …

Paper argues that the thin line between efficient management practices and inefficient bureaucracy is crossed to curb … managerial agency costs in a multi-layer hierarchy. The model predicts that bureaucracy increases with the frequency of … managerial turnover, and it establishes a link between bureaucracy, incentive schemes, and leverage in a cross-section of firms. …