This paper analyses the causes and consequences of offshore financial centers (OFCs). Since OFCs are likely to be tax … and simulate a model of a home country monopoly bank facing a representative competitive OFC which offers tax advantages …

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. …

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

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First …, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less … studied feature of corruption, namely bribe unavoidability. Second, we argue that the social costs of corruption arise not …

This paper reviews the theories of corruption in regulated sectors to further understand the impact of corruption and … attempt to draw out some of the broader lessons that can be learnt for anti-corruption policy in general. …