The paper provides a taxonomy of corrupt activities in terms of the source of illegal rent involved. It identifies two types of deterrent policies: discouraging and monitoring. Using these as tools, it analyses the probable effects of India's ongoing reforms and of her resourceful information...

We introduce bureaucratic corruption in a simple way and examine its effect on government revenue when policies change. We show that a rise in the tax rate can lead to a fall in net revenue -- a Laffer curve result due to the proportion of auditors that are corrupt and enforcement costs. It may...

In a corrupt tax administration a rise in tax rate sets about complicated strategic moves by both taxpayers and administrators. It is shown that in some circumstances, this may bring about a Laffer like behavior of overall tax revenue, i.e. a higher tax rate results in smaller net revenue for...

The paper examines the practice of charging bribes for faster delivery of a good or a service. A model is developed for a market where a public provider sells a good or service at an announced price through a delivery agent, and the latter extracts bribes to allow customers to jump the queue.The...

The paper examines the practice of charging bribes for faster delivery of a good or a service. A model is developed for a market where a public provider sells a good or service at an announced price through a delivery agent, and the latter extracts bribes to allow customers to jump the queue....