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 …

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 …

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 officials 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 …

In many developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption. This is surprising from a political economy … perspective, as the majority of people generally suffers from high corruption levels. We explain why citizens do not exert enough … political pressure to reduce corruption if financial institutions are missing. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt …