There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of … special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest … groups and the incidence of political corruption and determines whether electoral competition can eliminate political …

In this paper we investigate the role of judicial control of lobbying activities in an endogenous policy framework …, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying … itself, which performs an anti-corruption task - with the payment of illegal contributions, and provide general conditions …

. Utilizing a sudden disruption of political connections due to an anti-corruption policy, the paper finds that depoliticization …

. -- tax rates ; vote-buying ; lobbying ; government corruption …This paper studies how income tax rates are determined and how they are related to government corruption in the form of … equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and income tax rates are a negative function of government corruption. When rich …

perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption …/or have fewer competitors have more political influence, perceive corruption to be less of a problem and pay bribes less often …

This paper examines lobbying and corruption as alternative ways of dealing with regulatory obstacles. I propose a model … that firms who join lobby groups do not stop paying bribes to bureaucrats, and firms more impacted by corruption are no … of a firm bribing legislators and other rule makers, suggesting that lobbying introduces the possibility of state capture …

We study the form by which corruption is organized between politicians and entrepreneurs. Using a large-scale survey … extent of corruption. Our primary finding is a non-linear relationship between corruption and political horizons …. Specifically, corruption is more intense over long and short political horizons, and less intense over intermediate ones. We …

We examine the consequences of local laws modeled on the American Anti-Corruption Act (“AACA”), which aims to constrain …