We study the relationship between collusion and corruption in a stylized model of repeated procurement where the cost … bureaucrats, generating a trade-off. When the likelihood of corruption is high and competition is weak, collusion may be a price … worth paying to curb corruption. …

corruption in the administration, these outcomes become more likely. …

interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … the gap. We identify conditions under which economic reform in the formal segment will increase the rate of corruption or … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …

The existence of ambiguity in the study of the impact of corruption on economic growth, namely the grease the wheel … hypothesis and sand the wheel hypothesis, trigger this research to look at the impact of corruption through another perspective …, i.e. income inequality. This study identifies the mutual influence between corruption and income inequality in Asian …

Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …

We estimate the causal effect of the electoral system on corruption by leveraging a specificity of the French electoral … system. Exploiting that discontinuity in a regression discontinuity design and using survey and actual corruption data, we … find that the proportional list system results in higher levels of perceived and actual corruption than the individual …

neuronal theory of metaphors, resulting in a precise definition of rule-following as performative action. I present two …

a strictly naturalistic approach to this duality in the context of the theory of institutions, which means that its use …