determinants such as: corruption, regulation and bureaucracy, quality of public and government services, detection probability …

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 …

Analyzing law enforcement data on corruption incidents for a panel of 79 Russian regions for the period 2004-2007, we … find that the relative salaries of bureaucrats determine corruption levels: Corruption declines as relative salaries rise … up to a turning point, beyond which corruption rises again. Other important determinants are the strength of law …

We introduce bureaucratic corruption in a simple way and examine its effect on government revenue when policies change …. If corruption is low enough, revenues garnered from capturing people cheating may exceed those from choosing an audit … structure in which everyone declares their true income. We also examine a case in which corruption is endogenous. …

financing increases with freedom from corruption, rule of law, quality of regulations, and decreases with court disputes. We …

provide useful insights on the context and causes of corruption, incentives to assure efficiency within the public bureaucracy …The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on the importance of big-time corruption in … reducing funding for service delivery, the value of bureaucracy as a means of delivering public services, and the level of …