monitors affects performance both directly and through the response to incentives. In collaboration with the government of … illustrate that organizational design and anti-corruption policies must balance agency issues at different levels of the … hierarchy.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this …

The federal government owns and administers 472, 892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower US, making it both … the country's largest land owner and among the largest by a central government among western democracies. This condition … federal government and the role of the environmental movement in the process. Market failure and externalities were asserted …

that delivers such a result. Bureaucratic corruption translates into reduced ability by the government to collect tax …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 …

driven by alternative explanations, thus they are evidence of corruption and measures of the market value of government power …Using a large, unique dataset on the Chinese housing market, we propose to measure corruption using the price … interesting gradients with respect to their hierarchical ranks, the criticality of their government agencies to real estate …

Recent work in the sociology of economic development has emphasized the establishment of a professional government … 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 …

We construct measures of the extent to which the 4 main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their … government advertising (0.26 million pesos of 2000) is associated with a reduction in the coverage of the government's corruption … government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable: a one standard deviation increase in monthly …

This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …

hierarchy). Another type of steady state, corresponding to a despotic state, originates from initial conditions where the state …

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