such bureaucracy intermediaries are, anecdotally,linked with corruption and welfare losses, few formal analyses exist. In …Intermediaries helping individuals and rms with the government bureaucracy are common in developing countries. Although … are better offthan if intermediaries and corruption had not existed. Intermediaries grease the wheels. We then study …

How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …

We analyze the provision of infrastructure by a foreign investor when the domestic bureaucracy is corrupt, but puts … investment has been sunk, the bureaucracy may hold up the investor, using the threat of expropriation to demand a lower final …

For public officials, the decision to engage in corruption is embedded into abroader set of career considerations. In … punctualevents such as anti-corruption audits. In this paper, we propose a model of corruption with career concerns. We show that … because bureaucrats have a long timehorizon, anti-corruption audits may have long- and short-term effects, triggeringeither …

Corruption all over the world is an ancient, but it seems very topical too, concern in politics and in the media. This … paper investigates spatial and dynamic aspects of corruption using cellular automata. Although cellular automata are very … self organization and complex patterns (of corruption). It is shown that neither social pressure nor pure economic …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …'s bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the 'corruptibility' of bureaucrats in each case. Results …

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 …

those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission …. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after …

those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission …. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after …

equilibrium corruption in a bureaucracy are modeled. Different degrees of media freedom and competition affect production and …This paper investigates the relationship between a bureaucracy and mass media industry, and its implications to … corruption. We develop a bureaucratic model of corruption with mass media. A representative profit maximizing media firm seeks …