bribe-taking and tax re-distribution. The politician obtains utility from net income that comes from his wage income, tax … embezzlements and bribe-taking, and he also has incentives for tax re-distribution. The higher the tax embezzlements and the more …

This article empirically studies why manufacturing firms bribe the government officials. Firm-level data focusing on … country-level data from multiple sources. We then studied both firm-level and country-level reasons why firms bribe and how …

Purpose: Corruption, which includes payments of bribes to government officials, poses a serious impediment to the …, culture and decision making to predict whether and to what extent small business owners bribe government officials. Design …-side of corruption. It also explains how the lens of anomie theory leads to a better understanding of the mechanism of action …

prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …

Yukos Crisis, as a legitimate battle against corruption. However, in the transition economies, the state can abuse its power … retaining its monopoly power as a “fight with corruption”. In this paper we build a game between the state firm (government) and … the private firm (oligarchs), where the oligarchs can be of “strong” or “weak” type. Oligarchs use the amount of bribe to …

corruption. There are two bribe payment technologies and a Corruptor and a Receiver must agree on the value and on the technology …This paper investigates how the availability of alternative forms of bribe payments, on top of money, may facilitate … of the bribe. The paper infers which form of payment can be used by analyzing probabilities of punishment, bargaining …

. In our theoretical framework, the act of proposing or demanding a bribe violates a commonly held social norm, thus … asking for a bribe. We test the predictions of the model by using individual-level data for 25 countries from the European … offering a bribe, but no effect on the probability to be asked for a bribe. Overall, our findings indicate that policies aimed …