While a growing literature relates macro variation in corruption to ethnic divisions, existing studies have paid little … attention to the possible existence of systematic micro variation in corruption along ethnic lines. The present paper examines … whether individual corruption experiences vary systematically depending on ethnic group affiliation, and what the nature of …

The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In … bureaucrats. We argue that middle-men can undermine the effect of an anti-corruption reform by reducing the uncertainty that firms … face vis-à-vis a reformed tax bureaucracy, which in turn may encourage firms to pay bribes rather than taxes. Indeed, under …

in relation to three different dimensions of quality of government; low corruption, bureaucratic quality and legal …

three separate experiments: a dictator game experiment, a complete information trust game experiment, and a hidden action … trust game experiment. In the experiments we inform donors about the beliefs of their respective recipients, while eliciting …-order beliefs is close to zero in all three experiments. …