This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …

-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …

interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … the gap. We identify conditions under which economic reform in the formal segment will increase the rate of corruption or … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …

Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We … payments, limiting the state's economic development capability. In the face of extensive corruption, it is challenging for the … that minimizes corruption and is sensitive to the present and future needs of society. To do this it must understand what …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem … is less tight, bureaucrats are less venal, or compensation for expropriation is ungenerous. -- corruption ; bureaucratic …