Can we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to … contemplating intervention. I develop a theoretical model to help identify areas vulnerable to violence during genocide. I argue … strength of society’s cohesion below. Violence will be delayed in areas where political and military resistance to the center …

sectors. We explain this with a lobbying model that allows for entry and sunk costs. Specifically, policy is influenced by … pressure groups that incur lobbying expenses to create rents. In expanding industries, entry tends to erode such rents, but in …

Washington's 'revolving door' - the movement from government service into the lobbying industry - is regarded as a …

interpreted as the reduced form of various political economy models of voting and lobbying. We consider three special cases: a …

. The indicators of institutional quality are corruption, bureaucratic quality and the rule of law. We find that reducing … corruption has a positive impact on genuine saving in interaction with resource abundance. That is, the negative effect of … resource abundance on genuine saving is reduced as corruption is reduced. …

This paper investigates how corruption affects firrm behavior. Firms can engage in two types of corruption when seeking … a public service: cost-reducing "collusive" corruption and cost increasing "coercive" corruption. Using an original and … corruption by adjusting their shipping and sourcing strategies. "Collusive" corruption is associated with higher usage of the …

tariff evasion on imported goods. This is however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into other firms of … of corruption. I then provide suggestive evidence on how these displacement affects can be economically costly given that … in the design of trade and anti-corruption policies. …