corruption and public regulatory burden

Corruption and Decentralized Public Governance

This paper examines the conceptual and empirical basis of corruption and governance and concludes that decentralized local governance is conducive to reduced corruption in the long run. This is because localization helps to break the monopoly of power at the national level by bringing decision making closer to people. Localization strengthens government accountability to citizens by involving c...

Governance, Corruption, and Public Finance: An Overview

Public Debt, Corruption and Sustainable Economic Growth

There are many studies that look into the relationship between public debt and economic growth. It is hard to find, however, research addressing the role of corruption between these two variables. Noticing this vacancy in current literature, we strive to investigate the effect of corruption on the relationship between public debt and economic growth. For this purpose, the pooled ordinary least ...

Corruption and Public Display of Wealth∗

We build a principal-agent-client model of corruption, allowing for heterogeneity of the value of public projects relative to the cost of monitoring their virtuous execution. In an environment in which potential corruptors face uncertainty about the type of project followed by officials, we show under which conditions officials with low-value projects have an incentive to signal their project’s...

Corruption and Competition in Public Market Auctions

This paper investigates the effect of corruption on competition in government procurement auctions. Our assumption is that the bureaucrat (i.e. the agent that administers the market), if corrupt, may provide a favor in exchange for a bribe. The favor we consider in most of our analysis is the opportunity to readjust a bid. We show that a key effect of corruption is to facilitate collusion in pr...

Regulatory Quality Improvements for Preventing Corruption in Public Administration: a Capacity Building Perspective

This paper highlights one element that appears to be a major cause of corruption: inadequate public regulation. Based on a simple model of the interplay between the costs of acting in accordance with government regulations for individuals or their organizations, on one side, and the capacities of those individuals or organizations to comply with the regulations, on the other side, a series of r...