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 …

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 …

In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model … corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter penalties with the … eradication of corruption as the final goal. We propose an alternative approach which emphasizes why corruption arises in the …

possible to establish robust bounds on equilibrium corruption using only non-verifiable reports. Our analysis suggests a simple …

Corruption and imperfect contract enforcement dramatically reduce trade. This paper estimates the reduction, using a …

Although the theoretical literature on corruption is well developed, empirical work in this area has lagged because it … has proven difficult to isolate corrupt behavior in the data. In this paper, we look for evidence of corruption in an … stables play a role in facilitating the corruption. In times of increased media scrutiny, the match rigging disappears …

households. The theory predicts that bribery is more attractive to both parties when the client is richer, and we find …