bureaucrats. It is shown that the existence of tax evasion does not affect corruption activities at the firm level, while the … budgetary repercussions of tax evasion induce less corruption. Policy measures which alter the gains or losses from corruption …

. 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 …

The paper presents some empirical puzzles in the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption levels, and … corruption. In the presence of such multiple equilibria, the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption is no longer … that social welfare is decreasing in the incidence of corruption, across such equilibria …

. 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Scholars making economic policy recommendations to resolve corruption … accepting corruption operate, as well as explaining the importance of the agents for the survival of their environment. The rent … from the early period of transition in the Czech and Slovak Republics to support the implication that the corruption …