these policies commonly relies on information provided by a bureaucracy. Environmental bureaucrats often have a political …

We present experiments on repeated non-cooperative network formation games, based on Bala and Goyal (2000). We treat … coordination problems. We conduct experiments under various conditions which control for salient labeling and learning dynamics …. Contrary to previous experiments, we find that coordination on non-empty Strict Nash equilibria is not an easy task for …

determinants of environmental policies’ stringency, and show that differences in corruption levels are more important as … explanatory factor when compared to income differentials. Since high levels of corruption characterize some countries in the …

potential scope for rent seeking and corruption. The insights of a model of political influence by interest groups are tested …

corrupt economies in resource-rich countries. An empirical analysis of available corruption indices suggests that instability …-led looting provides a more fundamental explanation of perceived corruption than do various social and cultural indicators or the …

less corruption, more social welfare and education spending, more open markets, and better functioning government …

, one associated with high and another with low corruption. Corrupted politicians induce high levels of tax evasion … corruption equilibrium by choosing the appropriate tax rate and, through institutional changes, the rates of peculation. …