up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions …

politician corruption that we conducted in North India is remarkably consistent with our theoretical predictions …

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 …