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Competition in bureaucracy and corruption
Drugov, Mikhail - In: Journal of development economics 92 (2010) 2, pp. 107-114
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Competition in Bureaucracy and Corruption
Drugov, Mikhail - 2010
This paper studies the consequences of introducing competition between bureaucrats. Firms are supposed to invest into eliminating negative externalities of production, while bureaucrats administer the process by issuing licences. Some bureaucrats are corrupt, that is, they issue a licence to any...
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The Costs of Bureaucracy and Corruption at Customs : Evidence from the Computerization of Imports in Colombia
Laajaj, Rachid - 2019
investigation of the channels reveals a reduction in corruption judiciary cases at treated customs, as well as a reduction of time … information technologies to improve efficiency and tackle corruption in public administration with important consequences for the …
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Screening through Red Tape and Determinants of Bribes
Olimov, Jafar - 2019
firms whose managers or owners have no friends or relatives among the bureaucracy …
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Red Tape and Corruption
Guriev, Sergei - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069068
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Corruption, Rule of Law, and Economic Efficiency : Selected Anecdotic Evidence of Bureaucratic Corruption from the Czech and Slovak Republics
Otáhal, Tomáš; Grochová, Ladislava - 2012
Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Classical political economists argue that corruption undermines the rule of … law (Smith 2001, chap 5). The modern Public Choice proponents argue that corruption might influence the efficiency of the … rule of law. While Chicago Public Choice scholars model how corruption improves efficiency of the rule of law and thus the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178090
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Corruption, Rule of Law, and Economic Efficiency : Selected Anecdotic Evidence of Bureaucratic Corruption from the Czech and Slovak Republics
Wawrosz, Petr; Otáhal, Tomáš - 2013
Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Scholars making economic policy recommendations to resolve corruption …, we argue that the principal-agent theory has problems accounting for the environment in which the agents offering and … accepting corruption operate, as well as explaining the importance of the agents for the survival of their environment. The rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165228
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Corruption, Rule of Law, and Economic Efficiency : Selected Anecdotic Evidence of Bureaucratic Corruption from the Czech and Slovak Republics
Wawrosz, Petr - 2014
Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Scholars making economic policy recommendations to resolve corruption …, we argue that the principal-agent theory has problems accounting for the environment in which the agents offering and … accepting corruption operate, as well as explaining the importance of the agents for the survival of their environment. The rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059637
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Bad Politicians, Good Bureaucrats : Modelling Public Sector Corruption and Bureaucratic Reliability
Basu, Amy - 2021
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 …
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How to fight corruption : carrots and sticks
Knyazev, Dmitriy - In: Economic inquiry 61 (2023) 2, pp. 413-429
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