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We study stochastically stable behaviour in 2 x 2 coordination games where the risk-dominant equilibrium differs from the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. Individuals are randomly matched to another individual in the population with full support and they choose strategies by imitating the most...
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suggests thaht corruption, which is likely to emerge in long term reciprocal relationships between public officials and …
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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 …
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This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...
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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 …
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intermediaries, staff rotation, punishments and endogenous entry to the bureaucracy are provided. …
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suggests that corruption, which is likely to emerge in long term reciprocal relationships between public officials and …
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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. …
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An incentive-compatibility framework for regulating a monopolist with unknown costs is applied to the sponsor’s problem of monitoring a bureau. Following Mueller (1989), the bureau does not make take-it-or-leave-it budget proposals to the sponsor. Rather, the bureau must announce a marginal...
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Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
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