This analysis investigates a political corruption model that builds on previous literature on corruption in hierarchies …. Our study enriches the literature on political corruption emphasizing the contrasting role of the minorities having a … involved into the illicit activity and, eventually, spread the corruption disease. …

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 …

itself, which performs an anti-corruption task - with the payment of illegal contributions, and provide general conditions …

perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption …/or have fewer competitors have more political influence, perceive corruption to be less of a problem and pay bribes less often …

motive. Using clustered OLS regression with fixed effects and interaction terms, I find that there is in fact a "corruption …

This paper examines lobbying and corruption as alternative ways of dealing with regulatory obstacles. I propose a model … that firms who join lobby groups do not stop paying bribes to bureaucrats, and firms more impacted by corruption are no …