anti-corruption enforcement affect the expected quality of governance through candidate self-selection. We also show that …

I examine Ronald Coase's criticism of standard regulatory and tax policies to address environmental externalities. I … for the costs of political bargaining and lobbying that arise from implementing and administering government regulation …

for instrumental purposes. We then present an experiment that tests these ideas in the laboratory and finds support for …

corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. We find that a screening process that chooses the highest ability … applicants would not alter the average propensity for corruption among the applicant pool. Our findings imply that differential …

We use China's recent anti-corruption campaign as a natural experiment to examine the (market expected) equilibrium … consequences of (anti-)corruption. We argue that the announcement of inspections of provincial governments by the Central … Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on May 17, 2013 represents a significant departure of past norms of anti-corruption …

We investigate gift exchange relationships in real jobs, making use of a field quasi-experiment associated with the …