We study the emergence and interaction of red tape and corruption in a principal-bureaucrat-agent hierarchy. The … bribes to conceal the information produced through red tape. Even though the former kind of corruption tends to reduce red …

arise when monitoring corruption is difficult relative to monitoring the provision of public services, and politically …-important groups of citizens do not bear the full cost of corruption. The existence of such systems can distort the effective incidence … of the tax burden, reduce the incentives of government to fight corruption, and legitimize bribe-taking …

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 …

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

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 …