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 …

administrative environmental-rituals – to explicate behavioral-bureaucratic synergies that assist the replicability of corruption … administration. It is basically demonstrated that cultural-framings of corruption in Kenya and by extension in similar regions are … bindings, context-specific externalities and pressures typical in the pursuit of contemporary reform-paradigms. So, corruption …

Corruption can arise in any bureaucracy with the authority to allocate benefits and impose costs. This paper … applies basic economic ideas of scarcity, competition, sanctions, and incentives to the control of corruption in bureaucracies …. It presents the intuitions behind the economic theories and discusses their practical value in anti-corruption policy …