proposal to legalize paying bribes while increasing fines on accepting bribes. We explore performance as regards corruption …A model of harassment bribes (paid for services one is entitled to) is developed and used to analyze the recent … enforcement agencies, and discuss the relevance for fighting other forms of corruption. …

bribes to conceal the information produced through red tape. The former kind of corruption tends to reduce red tape, while …We study the emergence and interaction of red tape and corruption in a principal-bureaucrat-agent hierarchy. The … the social optimum if the bureaucrat in charge of red tape is corrupt. We consider two types of corruption. First, the …

corruption the preferred one in poor countries. Analyses of their joint effects are understandably rare. This paper provides a … theoretical framework that focus on the relationship between lobbying and corruption (that is, it investigates under what … conditions they are complements or substitutes). The paper also offers novel econometric evidence on lobbying, corruption and …

large share of primary exports in GNP have bad growth records and high inequality, especially if the quality of institutions … grabbing, especially if institutions are bad, and keeps in place bad policies. Optimal resource management may make use of the …

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously … localized and well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services. In several Eastern European … countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century …

completely after we control for aggregate measures of economic development and quality of institutions. Informal institutions … such as prevalence of corruption appear particularly important. …

Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse official corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less faith … in the court system. Our firm-level regressions for the three Eastern European countries find that official corruption is …