I investigate the relation between corruption and the composition of state government spending in the United States …. The analysis reveals that the United States is not immune to the adverse effects of corruption documented in cross …-country studies. Corruption lowers the share of state government spending devoted to higher education and raises the share of spending …

This paper examines the relation between political corruption and the composition of public spending. A rent …-seeking model is used to describe political rent creation through the composition of public spending. Political corruption is … categories characterized by high-technology goods supplied by non-competitive industries varies positively with the Corruption …

show why corruption is a problem of the state rather than the market. …

. This ability to extract rents is itself posited as a function of the degree of corruption in a country's government. Thus …, it is the high degree of corruption in developing country governments that contributes to the dual nature of their … industrial structure. The model predicts that the higher the degree of corruption, the fewer (and larger) are the formal firms …

water, corruption and rent-seeking. These failures result in wastage of this scarce resource. We propose to study the public …

stable norms of behaviour. Domination of barter exchange, arrears, corruption and black market activities are examples of …

We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …

, corruption, and some other institutional traps. Implications for reform strategy are explored. The analysis shows that the …