We study the emergence and interaction of red tape and corruption in a principal-bureaucrat-agent hierarchy. The … bribes to conceal the information produced through red tape. Even though the former kind of corruption tends to reduce red …

The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980-2018. The …

This review attempts to identify treatments of corruption that draw upon characteristics of underdevelopment either as … causes or as consequences. It focuses on three aspects of corruption in developing economies: red tape, rent-seeking, and the … the structure of corruption markets …

prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …

evasion. The author has also tried to find a causality relation between the option for tax evasion and corruption. The author … entire tax evasion, an important part being impossible to determine because of corruption. …

We study the emergence and interaction of red tape and corruption in a principal-bureaucrat-agent hierarchy. The … the social optimum if the bureaucrat in charge of red tape is corrupt. We consider two types of corruption. First, the … bribes to conceal the information produced through red tape. The former kind of corruption tends to reduce red tape, while …