subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …

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

Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout … the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by … enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil's anti-corruption program, which randomly …

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 …

interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share … estimates of electoral uncertainty and politicians effectiveness as perceived by the interest groups. Our approach also … implicitly delivers a novel method for estimating the impact of campaign spending on election outcomes: we find that an …

incentivize hard work by politicians. We discuss and test possible explanations. Our results suggest that the quot …

favor of them? We argue that re-election motives can lead politicians to take a pro-gun stance against the interests of an … choices in which incumbent politicians are both office and policy motivated, and voters differ in the direction and intensity … of their preferences. We derive conditions under which politicians support gun control early in their terms, but oppose …

in the Parliament is slim). Politicians switch parties after an election to improve their ex-ante re-election probability … those politicians who get elected from a given district by a small margin, and those who lose. Using detailed information on … elected MPs are more likely to switch parties after an election if they faced electoral uncertainty and experienced a narrowly …

This paper analyzes the effort allocation choices of incumbent politicians when voters are uncertain about politician … would strictly prefer to have a consensus policy implemented. As such, the desire of politicians to convince voters that … allocations. Transparency over the politicians' effort choices can re-enforce the distortions, and for some parameters can be bad …

We examine the labor supply of politicians using data on Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). We exploit the … absenteeism or shirking from legislative sessions; in contrast, non-pecuniary motives, proxied by home-country corruption …