corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model … which introduces taxes into Foellmi and Oechslin's (2007) general equilibrium model of non-collusive corruption. In this … model perceived corruption influences people's preferences for redistribution through two channels. On the one hand it …

particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … conducting a real effort task in every period.Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to … corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the … model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors …

Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First …, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less … studied feature of corruption, namely bribe unavoidability. Second, we argue that the social costs of corruption arise not …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …