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 …

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. …

. Although such bureaucracy intermediaries are, anecdotally, linked with corruption and welfare losses, few formal analyses exist …" corruption only. Intermediaries can thus improve access to the bureaucracy, but also strengthen incentives to create red tape - a …Intermediaries helping individuals and firms with the government bureaucracy are common in developing countries …

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 …

Corruption has a complex relationship with economic growth. We have explored the impact of corruption on credit risk …-performing loan (NPL) is used as a proxy for credit risk and data regarding NPL is collected from the World Bank Database. Corruption … between corruption and credit risk for the global sample. Generalized Methods of Moments regression and robustness tests …

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

This is a note on corruption and underground economy in a Kaldor-type model of the business cycle. It appears that when …