This paper analyzes the existing relation between corruption and economic growth andexamines the possible outcome of a reform implemented by the State to weed out or reducecorruption. It will be stressed that the reform against corruption tends, if not deemed bythe operators to last in time, to...

<font size="2" face="CMR10"><font size="2" face="CMR10">This paper analyzes the existing relationship between ethnolinguistic fractionalization, corruption and the growth rate of a country. We provide a simple theoretical model. We show that a non-linear relationship between fractionalization and corruption exists: corruptionis high in homogeneous or...</font></font>

In this paper we try to construct an hypothesis as to why, as data seem to show, countries that adopt more "transparent procurement", as calculated by the share of tender advertised publicly, are also the ones where corruption is considered more pervasive. We describe an economy where in...

  In this paper we explore tax revenue in a regime of widespread corruptionin a static and dynamic framework. We prove that the relationship betweenthe tax rate and tax collection is not linear. In a static context, this maybring about a Laffer, like behavior of overall tax revenue; a higher...

<p> This paper analyzes the relation existing between corruption, monitoring and output inan economy. By solving a dynamic game we prove that equilibrium output is a non-linearupper-hemicontinuous function (MP function) of the monitoring level implemented by theState on corruption, presenting 3...</p>