This paper investigates the effect of corruption on competition in government procurement auctions. Our assumption is … corruption is to facilitate collusion in price between firms. This can result in high public spending and inefficient allocation … which unilateral anti-corruption controls may restore price competition. …

when designing anti-corruption policy. …

Accurate citizen perceptions of corruption are crucial for the political process to effectively restrain corrupt … corruption in a road-building project in their village with a more objective measure of `missing expenditures' in the project. I … between corruption in a particular road project and general corruption in the village. The magnitude of their information …

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …

. We show that corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time. However, centralization … makes more difficult for citizens to detect corrupt incumbents. Thus, corruption is easier under centralization for low …

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 … bribes to conceal the information produced through red tape. The former kind of corruption tends to reduce red tape, while …

enforcers - on sequential, bilateral, illegal transactions such as corruption, manager-auditor collusion, or drug deals. It is …

losses created by corruption. For each level of externalities, we find that high and low levels of corruption create … qualitatively different distortions, which in turn changes the nature and reach of optimal policies. Under low levels of corruption … the first best allocation. When externalities and corruption are above a threshold, only a second best allocation can be …