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. …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …

Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public … determines corruption is limited. This paper uses a novel dataset of political corruption in local governments, constructed from … reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibility of re-election affects the level of rents …

’s recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of federally-transferred funds, it estimates the … effects of the disclosure of local government corruption practices upon the re-election success of incumbent mayors. Comparing …