There appears to be significant diversity in the incidence of bureaucratic corruption across countries at different stages of economic development and under different political and economic regimes. Little theoretical or empirical analysis has been offered, however, on the link between...

In this paper, we propose the use of new stochastic dominance tests to achieve a more robust analysis of relative welfare levels in the study of income distributions. In particular, we propose applying the theory of descending stochastic dominance to enrich results that are obtained using the...