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 …

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 …

This is a note on corruption and underground economy in a Kaldor-type model of the business cycle. It appears that when …

. Conditions under which lower-tier corruption arises as an equilibrium characterization of the game are identified. If … bureaucratic corruption sufficiently reduces the tax base, policies that deter corruption may be optimal. When monitoring is … expensive or ineffective, lower-level corruption arises as equilibrium. Tax farming and the sale of offices can occur in these …

. Although such bureaucracy intermediaries are, anecdotally, linked with corruption and welfare losses, few formal analyses exist …Intermediaries that assist individuals and firms with the government bureaucracy are common in developing countries … procedure, individuals using intermediaries are better off than if intermediaries and corruption had not existed. Then, we study …

main findings are that the corruption of the political principals may induce a situation in which the bureaucracy is … bureaucracy, and that the corruption of the political regime and the level of economic development may also affect bureaucratic …Most models of bureaucracy tend to assume a principal-agent model in which elected politicians delegate policy …

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 …

officials and industry size. -- institutional norms ; bureaucracy costs ; norm viability ; industry size …