We analyze the provision of infrastructure by a foreign investor when the domestic bureaucracy is corrupt, but puts … investment has been sunk, the bureaucracy may hold up the investor, using the threat of expropriation to demand a lower final … increase or decrease domestic welfare. Because of the threat of hold-up, bribery may result in greater domestic welfare than …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire … extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and …

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 …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …'s bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the quot;corruptibilityquot; of bureaucrats in each case …. Results are explained in terms of the non-internalization, under decentralization, of the quot;bribe externalityquot; and the …

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher … corruption increases level of employment in the informal sector. Further, our analysis also shows that for higher levels of …

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the … Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …

The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or … with two latent variables - extracts information on various dimensions of corruption and the shadow economy to contribute … and corruption. The results show that the shadow economy influences corruption more than corruption influences the shadow …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …