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

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 …

There appears to be significant diversity in the incidence of bureaucratic corruption across countries at different … has been offered, however, on the link between corruption, government, and growth. The paper attempts to fill the void …

This review attempts to identify treatments of corruption that draw upon characteristics of underdevelopment either as … causes or as consequences. It focuses on three aspects of corruption in developing economies: red tape, rent-seeking, and the … the structure of corruption markets …

In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even if they have democratic … high corruption levels. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt offcials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative … positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …

Does the disclosure of information about corrupt activities induce a sustained reduction in corruption? We use … longitudinal data on audits of municipal governments in Puerto Rico to answer this question. We find that corruption is lower in … municipalities audited before an election. However, these municipalities do not exhibit decreased levels of corruption in subsequent …