01906cas a2200325 a 4500 AALejournalIMF003912 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451862713 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Vardy, Felix. Corruption, Competition, and Contracts : A Model of Vote Buying / Felix Vardy, John Morgan. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006. 1 online resource (23 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students In the presence of competing interest groups, this paper examines how the form of votebuying contracts affects policy outcomes. We study contracts contingent upon individual votes, policy outcomes, and/or vote shares. Voters either care about their individual votes, or about the policy outcome. We find that vote buying is cheaper when what can be contracted upon coincides with what voters care about. Vote buying becomes extremely costly, or even impossible, when there is no such coincidence. Finally, vote buying is extremely cheap, or even free, when contracts can be contingent upon both individual votes and vote shares. Mode of access: Internet Contracts Contingent imf Corruption imf Lobbying imf Vote Buying imf WP imf United Kingdom imf Morgan, John. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/011 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2006/011/001.2006.issue-011-en.xml IMF e-Library