This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …

The topic of corruption has recently attracted a great deal of attention, yet there is still a lack of micro level … empirical evidence regarding the determinants of corruption. Furthermore, the present literature has not investigated the … effects of political interest on corruption despite the interesting potential of this link. We address these deficiencies by …

in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. …

compromised by corruption. Our analysis is based on a dynamic general equilibrium model of a small economy in which growth is … driven by capital accumulation and public policy is administered by government appointed bureaucrats. Corruption may arise …) corruption is always bad for economic development, but its effect is worse if the economy is open than if it is closed; (2) the …

There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of … groups and the incidence of political corruption and determines whether electoral competition can eliminate political … corruption. We obtain some striking results. Greater electoral competition serves to lessen policy distortions. However, this in …

This paper develops a simple framework to analyze the links between corruption and the unofficial economy and their …