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 …

The role of whistle-blowing as a mechanism for deterring corruption has been conspicuously neglected in the economic … literature. This is quite surprising given the increase in legislation aimed at preventing corruption that includes whistle … deals squarely with the analysis of the role and potential impact of whistleblowing on the persistence of corruption in …

This paper offers a model to study competition and corruption with a principal-agent framework. We provide two key … results on the optimal institutional design. First, in quality-only competition, corruption does no harm to the principal, but … in quality-price competition, corruption negatively a¢´ects the principal. Second, with no corruption, quality …

While empirical studies which analyze large cross section country data find that corruption lowers investment and … these mixed findings may be that a country's corruption and growth rates are tightly linked as variables of a dynamic … evolutionary game. In this model the quality of government institutions is an endogenous variable, depending on the corruption rate …

In this paper I present a brief survey on corruption from an economic point of view. Since corruption is a very complex … phenomenon, the first part of the work gives an overview of possible definitions of corruption offered by the economic literature … theoretical literature, I present a schematic review of the consequences of corruption on economic growth. …

suggests thaht corruption, which is likely to emerge in long term reciprocal relationships between public officials and …

such bureaucracy intermediaries are, anecdotally,linked with corruption and welfare losses, few formal analyses exist. In …Intermediaries helping individuals and rms with the government bureaucracy are common in developing countries. Although … are better offthan if intermediaries and corruption had not existed. Intermediaries grease the wheels. We then study …

intermediaries, staff rotation, punishments and endogenous entry to the bureaucracy are provided. …