This paper studies the impact of decentralisation on corruption in a hierarchy, where decentralisation is intended as … the delegation of power to lower levels. More decentralisation has a positive impact on corruption, raising individual … their propensity to corruption and raising the higher layers' monitoring. When this second effect dominates …

(the jurisdictional power). Basing our affirmations on the model, we can say that corruption may have declined in Italy …

-blowing rewards. The optimal organizational design involves minimizing corruption by some reshuffling of team members and specializing …

We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo … profits and distortions beyond those that would be made possible via corruption by individual state officials …

cost of corruption, in the context of public transport. We first document that police stops can lead to long bribe …

cost of corruption, in the context of public transport. We first document that police stops can lead to long bribe …

We develop a framework of group corruption via back-door negotiations between an outside initiator and an authority of …

For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … reduces corruption. …

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …