by low inflation, robust growth and low level of bureaucratic corruption due to better governance. In contrast, the … corruption, high inflation due partly to reliance on seigniorage to finance public spending, and lackluster growth. Using annual …

between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … pure anticipation of future rewards from a lobbying party suffices to bias a decision-maker in favor of this party, even …

between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … pure anticipation of future rewards from a lobbying party suffices to bias a decision-maker in favor of this party, even …

This paper examines lobbying and corruption as alternative ways of dealing with regulatory obstacles. I propose a model … where firms facing a costly regulation can bribe a rule-enforcing bureaucrat to get around it, lobby the government to … that firms who join lobby groups do not stop paying bribes to bureaucrats, and firms more impacted by corruption are no …

Previous research has found a negative effect of corruption on growth in the United States. However, some theory … corruption’s harmful effects on growth are smaller when regulation is greater. … suggests corruption might have a positive impact in places with dysfunctional political institutions. This paper investigates …

This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business … (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; 2) competition and privatization reduces … cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that 1) strong regulatory substance …