through a merit-based promotion system, which should restrain corruption. But much evidence shows that rampant corruption … serious punishments for wrong-doing, or an increase in promotion gain, promotion can incentivize corruption. Using a fuzzy … novel measures of corruption, we find that promotions encourage corruption in China. Moreover, prefecture party secretaries …

Should state regulatory involvement in the economy necessarily generate corruption? While excessive regulatory burden … is often treated as a cause of corruption, this paper argues otherwise. It disentangles the economic effects of … than the official regulatory burden, exacerbate bureaucratic corruption. This draws attention to the theoretical …

This paper presents an analysis of the joint determination of bureaucratic corruption and economic development. The … collect taxes from households. Corruption is reflected in bribery and tax evasion as bureaucrats conspire with households to …

We analyze bureaucracy and corruption in a market with decentralized exchange and "lemons." Exchange is modeled as a …, private agents might bribe bureaucrats, whereas they do not bribe each other. An equilibrium with corruption and an … equilibrium without corruption can coexist. We discuss some welfare implications of the model …

Large and persistent differences in corruption across comparable countries is a challenging research issue. Even more …

relationship between democratisation and quality-of-government, has anti-corruption policy movement sizzled-out, especially …, considering the popularity of Chinese Aid and the fact that Western donors have seemingly severed anti-corruption reforms from Aid … Anglophone Africa, only explicates the saliency of anti-corruption reforms whose institutional-foundations trace to English …