correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …

policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid …

, development and accountability with program outcomes. Our findings have important implications for both the design and …

of moral ideal, we show that the impact of transparency is conditional on the length of the transfer chain and on the … intermediary will embezzle less. Senders react positively to a reduction of the length of the chain but negatively to transparency. …