bureaucracy in place of political appointees as an important component of the institutional environment in which private … corruption of their subordinates as a byproduct of their efforts to implement their preferences using tax revenue. Within this …

illustrate that organizational design and anti-corruption policies must balance agency issues at different levels of the …

they may further expand the size of bureaucracy so as to gain additional votes. The model shows that an equilibrium with an …

matter for policy design. To illustrate, we show that a common procurement policy— bid preferences for domestic suppliers …

Bureaucratic quality in terms of the level of corruption varies widely across countries, and is in general slow to …. In this paper, we study the possibility that quality of bureaucracy may be an important structural determinant of open … that delivers such a result. Bureaucratic corruption translates into reduced ability by the government to collect tax …