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In this article we develop a dynamic model where an endogenous evolution of trust impacts a politician's choice for bribe-taking and tax re-distribution. The politician obtains utility from net income that comes from his wage income, tax embezzlements and bribe-taking, and he also has incentives...
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This paper investigates empirically the relationships between the corruption climate and the demand for good governance … accountability as well as the firm's behavior in terms of corruption practices. While there is a growing theoretical literature on … the importance of externality mechanisms of corruption phenomena, little empirical evidences has been highlighted. This …
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While methodologies and survey techniques recorded progress over the years, corruption measurement remains a many …-headed monster. Since 2003 and the first publication of Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer, researchers have … access to population's feeling about the corruption scourge across institutions. Thereby, wider room emerged for populations …
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This paper explores the role of corruption in a two-country model with fiscal spillovers. In the absence of cooperation … on governance issues, countries always have a strategic incentive to appoint policymakers whose aversion to corruption is … lower than average. An international agreement is a precondition for placing corruption fighters at the head of governments. …
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We explore the consequences of bad governance and corruption for public debt and welfare in a model of policymaking … point of this paper is that corruption can enhance welfare in two ways: first, by mitigating the inflationary bias of … accumulation. The paper thus invokes the lack of interest for explaining the prevalence of corruption in countries with low …
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Du point de vue de l'analyse économique, la corruption tire ses spécificités de l'imbrication de deux contrats aux … objectifs divergents. La corruption est définie comme un accord illégal, ou pacte de corruption, liant un agent à un corrupteur … corruption, la revue de la littérature proposée ici articule les développements récents de l'analyse microéconomique de la …
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bureaucrat's total revenue from corruption, but it may also increase the risk of expropriation and the extortion bribes paid by …
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This paper investigates links between corruption and collusion in procurement. A first-price multiple-object auction is … conveys value to the agent's decision power. Second, self-interested abuse of discretion to extract rents (corruption … with corruption, collusion is more likely in auctions where firms are small relative to the market. Our main message to …
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This paper develops a game-theoretic model of "petty corruption" by government officials. Such corruption is widespread … used to shed some light on two much advocated anti-corruption policies: the single window policy and rotation of …
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education, what can explain the missing growth in developing countries ? Corruption, the poor enforcement of property rights … bad institutions have on growth, but few are examining the link between education, corruption (more generally bad … institutions) and growth. Our model assumes that at low level of GDP per head and high level of corruption education spending has …
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