Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Corruption"

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    • Corruption 

      Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema N.; Mullainathan, Sendhil (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter ...

    • Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States 

      Campante, Filipe Robin; Do, Quoc-Anh (American Economic Association, 2014)
      We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability. We then provide direct evidence that the ...