This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total … departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The … antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the bureaucrats. This paper characterizes the Nash equilibria in lobbying and …

Firms often try to influence individuals that, like regulators, are tasked with advising or deciding on behalf of a … third party. In a dynamic regulatory setting, we show that a firm may prefer to capture regulators through the promise of a … because the revolving door publicly signals the firm's eagerness and commitment to rewarding lenient regulators, which …

, a failure due, at least in Iceland, to a combination of mistakes, incompetence and what can only be called corruption …

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …

contrary, under corruption, we show that bailouts are ineffective unless rent-seeking groups are eradicated. -- sovereign debt …

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

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 …