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. …

Abstract The paper shows that corruption at the federal level may be contagious for regional governments suggesting … that federal structure of the government may be one of the reasons for persistence of corruption. The analysis reveals that … independent levels of capture of the central and regional governments the present paper endogenizes the incidence of corruption in …