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

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 …

There are a large number of cases where corruption has been discovered investigating levels of consumption that appear … the principal. We argue that this assumption has to be revised in applications that study corruption. The informativeness … consumption with the aim of reducing corruption, and discuss features of the practical applications. We show that when there is …

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 …