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The role of whistle-blowing as a mechanism for deterring corruption has been conspicuously neglected in the economic … literature. This is quite surprising given the increase in legislation aimed at preventing corruption that includes whistle … deals squarely with the analysis of the role and potential impact of whistleblowing on the persistence of corruption in …
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suggests thaht corruption, which is likely to emerge in long term reciprocal relationships between public officials and …
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suggests that corruption, which is likely to emerge in long term reciprocal relationships between public officials and …
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An incentive-compatibility framework for regulating a monopolist with unknown costs is applied to the sponsor’s problem of monitoring a bureau. Following Mueller (1989), the bureau does not make take-it-or-leave-it budget proposals to the sponsor. Rather, the bureau must announce a marginal...
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This is a note on corruption and underground economy in a Kaldor-type model of the business cycle. It appears that when …
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performance for a public organisation, which represents by excellence a bureaucracy. Therefore, the evaluation of the "distance …
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Using the Principal-Agent-Supervisor paradigm, we examine in this paper how a tax collection agency changes optimal schemes in order to lessen the occurrence of bribery between the tax collector and the taxpayer. The Principal, who maximizes the expected net fiscal revenue, reacts by decreasing...
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examining the (in) efficient usage of resources in the public sector that is mostly based on the theory of bureaucracy …
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This paper examines the relationship between corruption and infrastructure at both the country and regional level using … the measure of corruption in the macro data and the measures of transportation and electricity infrastructure. Countries … with more corruption tend to have worse infrastructure in the eyes of their firms. This link is shown to remain when one …
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Drawing from the literature on the determinants of corruption, this article examines the relationship between … corruption and the nature of state of fragility. Robust empirical evidence shows a correlation between the level of corruption … neither flowing from state fragility to classical corruption nor to extreme corruption. S’enregistrant dans la littérature sur …
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