correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire … extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and …

processes, the generation and absorption of information in bureaucracy relies on individual actors undertaking costly action to …

-economic reasoning: An economic and fiscal crisis is a potent catalyst for reforms, but a powerful bureaucracy effectively constrains the …

We study the consequences of populism for government performance and the quality of bureaucracy. When voters lose trust …

How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …