We construct two variants of a three-player one-shot corruption game, one in which reporting on bribers is cumbersome … is, corruption, while larger penalties on the official decrease corruption. Second, when comparing the two models, we … obtain the surprising result that the probability of reciprocated bribery (corruption) is higher in the variant where the …

dysfunction as a result of action of institutional factors, in particular, corruption as an informal negative institute. The … the level of perceptible corruption. This suggests that democracy facilitates dispersion of responsibility and alienation …

administration of tax and regulatory regimes--not higher tax rates alone--as well as corruption, that increases the size of the … firms experience a greater tax and regulatory burden, as well as more bribery and corruption. The unofficial economy is also … larger unofficial economy tend to grow more slowly. Thus, this framework suggests an additional channel whereby corruption …