rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and …/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total of these rents: the difference in reported subjective wellbeing … extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …