This paper examines the issue of controlling fiscal corruption by providing incentives to fiscal officers. First, a … case study of a successful attack on corruption is presented that shows the importance of attending to the conditions of … consistency with optimization behavior. It confirms that simply providing bonuses is not enough. Corruption at higher levels of …

This paper asks whether corruption might be the outcome of a lack of outside options for public officials or civil …-induced private sector expansion leads to a decline in publicly supplied corruption as it provides outside options to public officials … who might otherwise engage in corruption. We provide empirical evidence that strongly shows that technology …

This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic … corruption. An important implication of these results is that policies that reduce corruption will also lower income inequality …

alternative stabilization/reform packages as a function of the scope of corruption activities. The framework developed herein is a … basic one in which only the most fundamental questions (such as the effects of anti-corruption government policies on output …, and is able to explain why, even when able to eliminate corruption activity altogether, governments may choose not to do …

Paper discusses the factors that contribute to the spread of corruption as well as the implications of corruption for … markets and for public sector activities. It is argued that corruption can be contained mainly by a scaling down of the public …