The paper explores a game-theoreticmodel of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of … assumptions on the structure of the game. -- corruption ; repeated games ; hold up ; extortion ; capture …

The paper explores a game-theoreticmodel of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of …

community and formal enforcement, while corruption undermines it. We discuss how community can play an important role in a …

This paper develops a game theoretic model of corruption in tax assessments. Bureaucrats are assumed to be … heterogeneous in the level of corruption and the favors they offer to the public. Our first result establishes the optimal amount of …

-blowing rewards. The optimal organizational design involves minimizing corruption by some reshuffling of team members and specializing …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

corruption in the administration, these outcomes become more likely. …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …'s bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the 'corruptibility' of bureaucrats in each case. Results … is less tight, bureaucrats are less venal, or compensation for expropriation is ungenerous. -- corruption ; bureaucratic …

privatization is more likely to be chosen if the government is politically weak. -- Corruption ; Bureaucratic Structure ; Developing …