How do corruption and the state apparatus interact, and how are they connected to the political and economic dimensions … effect of corruption on state power. Under general assumptions about fat-tailed risk, we show that, if fiscal capacity is … corruption is maintained at such a level that no erosion of state power is tolerated. Comparative statics shows the impacts of …

those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission …. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

Corruption has been found to be the most severe obstacle to business operations, according to a recent survey of over 3 …,000 firms in Myanmar. This paper sets out to understand the structure of corruption through an econometric analysis of this …) are more likely to find corruption to be an obstacle. A distinct but related question is whether bribes act as 'efficiency …

How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …

corruption in the administration, these outcomes become more likely. …

bureaucracy. The study uses grammatical genders in languages to capture the societal attitudes towards female entrepreneurship … presence of a discriminating inefficient business ecosystem, women entrepreneurs use non-market strategies such as corruption … to alter decisions in their favour. Thus, an effort to reduce corruption at an immature stage, when these societal …