Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …. Officials verify compliance to determine whether to grant permits, and may engage in either bribery or extortion. Without … feedback, the government has no choice but to tolerate bribery, which leads to too many permits being granted and large …

those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission …. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after …

How do corruption and the state apparatus interact, and how are they connected to the political and economic dimensions … effect of corruption on state power. Under general assumptions about fat-tailed risk, we show that, if fiscal capacity is … corruption is maintained at such a level that no erosion of state power is tolerated. Comparative statics shows the impacts of …

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 …