Corruption and Technology-Induced Private Sector Development /

This paper asks whether corruption might be the outcome of a lack of outside options for public officials or civil servants. We propose an occupational choice model embedded in an agency framework to address the issue. We show that technology-induced private sector expansion leads to a decline in pu...

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Yazar: Ruhashyankiko, Jean-Francois
Diğer Yazarlar: Yehoue, Etienne
Materyal Türü: Dergi
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Seri Bilgileri:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/198
Online Erişim:Full text available on IMF
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Özet:This paper asks whether corruption might be the outcome of a lack of outside options for public officials or civil servants. We propose an occupational choice model embedded in an agency framework to address the issue. We show that technology-induced private sector expansion leads to a decline in publicly supplied corruption as it provides outside options to public officials who might otherwise engage in corruption. We provide empirical evidence that strongly shows that technology-induced private sector development is associated with a decline in aggregate corruption. This suggests that the decline in publicly supplied corruption outweighs the potential increase in privately supplied corruption that could result from private sector expansion.
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Fiziksel Özellikler:1 online resource (32 pages)
Materyal Türü:Mode of access: Internet
ISSN:1018-5941
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