dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on …

A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …

interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … the gap. We identify conditions under which economic reform in the formal segment will increase the rate of corruption or … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …

this regard. The external debt of Greece, Iceland, Ireland, and Spain increased exponentially, in Iceland at a rate higher …, a failure due, at least in Iceland, to a combination of mistakes, incompetence and what can only be called corruption …

In an environment with extensive corruption where much of the population evades paying their full taxes due, we tackle …