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

We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … levels of pollution are dependent on the levels of corruption. Our results hold when we control for the effects of other …

How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …

-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts …

the cost of running as a candidate is arbitrarily small. -- elections ; polarization ; strategic delegation ; bureaucracy …

middle class to sink their human capital into a relatively unproductive bureaucracy. Thus the bureaucracy serves as an …' incentive to revolt on the one hand and the elite's incentive to subsidize participation in the inefficient bureaucracy on the …