Recent literature highlights a paradox in corruption prevention messaging: instead of reducing tolerance for corruption …, such campaigns can inadvertently intensify it by priming the existence of corruption while failing to diminish citizens … combating corruption often backfire among individuals with preexisting negative perceptions of corruption, we posit that an …

In an environment with extensive corruption where much of the population evades paying their full taxes due, we tackle …

corruption is pervasive - a model that considers the existence of strategic transmission of information. Most of the literature … on corruption assumes that the taxpayer and the tax inspector jointly decide on the income to report, which also … part of a larger effort in the group to understand how the existence of corruption affects the remuneration schemes tax …

Can governments successfully combat bureaucratic corruption by "hiring integrity" from the private sector? This paper … examines the impact of hiring private firms to collect information for government anti-corruption efforts. In the past two … data that governments can use to fight corruption in customs agencies. I find that countries implementing such inspection …