A puzzling piece of empirical evidence suggests that resource-abundant countries tend to grow slower than their resource-poor counterparts. We attempt to explain this phenomenon by developing a lobbying game in which rent seeking firms interact with corrupt governments. The presence or absence...

Though blockchain aims to alleviate bribing attacks, users can collude with miners by directly sending bribes. This paper focuses on empirical evidence of bribes to miners, and the detected behaviour implies that mining power could be exploited. By scanning transactions on Ethereum, transactions...