The paper presents some empirical puzzles in the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption levels, and … corruption. In the presence of such multiple equilibria, the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption is no longer … that social welfare is decreasing in the incidence of corruption, across such equilibria …

This paper shows why some countries are trapped in an equilibrium with high unofficial economic activity and corruption … unofficial economy and corruption activity …

Corruption all over the world is an ancient, but it seems very topical too, concern in politics and in the media. This … paper investigates spatial and dynamic aspects of corruption using cellular automata. Although cellular automata are very … self organization and complex patterns (of corruption). It is shown that neither social pressure nor pure economic …

This review attempts to identify treatments of corruption that draw upon characteristics of underdevelopment either as … causes or as consequences. It focuses on three aspects of corruption in developing economies: red tape, rent-seeking, and the … the structure of corruption markets …

-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …

been shown to play an important role in the provision of public goods, corruption might strongly disrupt the ability of a …

Corruption is a welfare issue worldwide, but it is difficult to study because of its secret nature. We here did a lab … economic experiment on bribery to study different compliance mechanisms through which people might be deterred from corruption … insights in the elaboration of strategies to combat corruption and norm transgressions …

Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In … this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall …