In this paper we investigate the role of judicial control of lobbying activities in an endogenous policy framework …, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying … itself, which performs an anti-corruption task - with the payment of illegal contributions, and provide general conditions …

backfire when available but not provided. -- gift exchange ; externalities ; lobbyism ; corruption ; reciprocity ; social …

. Utilizing a sudden disruption of political connections due to an anti-corruption policy, the paper finds that depoliticization …

. -- tax rates ; vote-buying ; lobbying ; government corruption …This paper studies how income tax rates are determined and how they are related to government corruption in the form of … equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and income tax rates are a negative function of government corruption. When rich …

motive. Using clustered OLS regression with fixed effects and interaction terms, I find that there is in fact a "corruption …

perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption …/or have fewer competitors have more political influence, perceive corruption to be less of a problem and pay bribes less often …

We study the form by which corruption is organized between politicians and entrepreneurs. Using a large-scale survey … extent of corruption. Our primary finding is a non-linear relationship between corruption and political horizons …. Specifically, corruption is more intense over long and short political horizons, and less intense over intermediate ones. We …

This paper presents a novel theory of corruption in public procurement. It considers an agency setting of contract … politician chooses a relatively lax auditing in order to create an incentive for cost-padding, and engages in corruption with the …

authorization and strict authorization. We find that corruption plays a critical role in the choice of the authorization regime …. Corruption exacerbates the costs of using lenient authorization, under which production of socially harmful goods is always … authorized. In contrast, corruption can be socially beneficial under strict authorization, since it can mitigate an over …