We exploit spatial variation in randomized anti-corruption audits related to government procurement contracts in Brazil to assess how corruption affects resource allocation, firm performance, and the local economy. After an anti-corruption crackdown, regions experience more entrepreneurship, improved access to finance, and higher levels of economic activity. This is inconsistent with corruption...

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The paper explores a game-theoretic model of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of bureaucrats. Each entrepreneur’s project is approved if and only if it is cleared by each bureaucrat. The project value is stochastic; its value is observed only by the entrepreneur, but its distribution is common knowledge. Each bureaucrat clears the project only if a bribe is pai...

the current study carried out in order that identify the effective causes and effects led to outbreak of administrative corruption in the bank sepah of qom province on the subject of “the study of effective individual and organizational factors of administrative corruption in the bank sepah of qom province”. the area of study encircles the employees which work in the bank sepah. this study has ...