political support. Combining data on the public disclosure of anti-corruption efforts and individual well-being in China, we …

dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on …

We estimate the causal effect of the electoral system on corruption by leveraging a specificity of the French electoral … law where the electoral system for municipal councils depends on municipal population. Specifically, municipalities with … system. Exploiting that discontinuity in a regression discontinuity design and using survey and actual corruption data, we …

public corruption. In contrast, sanctions have no significant effect on political stability in countries with lower levels of … corruption. These results are robust across various model specifications, control variables, competing moderator, and alternative … during sanctions by improving their control of corruption. …

ethics that are behind the economic analysis of disasters. Given this absence, we believe that a better understanding of the … ways in which the discipline approaches the topic of disasters and its ethics is gained not by examining the multitude of …

In many auctions, the auctioneer is an agent of the seller. This invites corruption. We propose a model of corruption … profitable. We characterize equilibrium bidding in first- and second-price auctions, show how corruption distorts the allocation …, and why both the auctioneer and bidders may have a vested interest in maintaining corruption. Bid rigging is initiated by …