power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State … 12% outside, capturing $410 million in land value gains out of the total $710 million from rezoning. The marginal gains … rezoning decisions across Queensland and Australia in the last few decades, suggests that many billions of dollars of economic …

There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of … special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest … groups and the incidence of political corruption and determines whether electoral competition can eliminate political …

in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. …

between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … pure anticipation of future rewards from a lobbying party suffices to bias a decision-maker in favor of this party, even …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …

between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … pure anticipation of future rewards from a lobbying party suffices to bias a decision-maker in favor of this party, even …

This paper studies how income tax rates are determined and how they are related to government corruption in the form of … equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and income tax rates are a negative function of government corruption. When rich … voters can bribe the government, an additional equilibrium with zero taxation is possible. The link between corruption and …

bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … that considers the implications of trust networks. A bond of trust may permit an implicit quid pro quo to substitute for a … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …

development of many aspects of corruption, organized crime, markets, and the state. The lack of attention to informal systems can … paper will (i) review pertinent literature on informal groups and networks and states since the fall of communism; (ii …