The paper explores a game-theoreticmodel of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …'s bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the 'corruptibility' of bureaucrats in each case. Results …

queuing theory to firstdemonstrate that when allocating goods publically, a case can be made for favoring a particular groupof …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …

This paper investigates the role of guilt aversion for corruption in public administration. Corruption is modeled as … the outcome of a game played between a bureaucrat, a lobby, and the public. There is a moral cost of corruption for the …, corruption is more likely when the horizon of the game is relatively long and when public beliefs are initially low and are …

corruption being prominent among them. In part 4 we set up and quantify a model to analyze the interrelationships among the … consumption and the level of corruption. We also demonstrate that the concealed consumption share plays an important role in the …

This paper analyzes the economic foundations of a non-democratic political regime, where the ruling bureaucracy … equilibrium in the 'political labor market,' where the ruling bureaucracy buys services and political support of activists …