The corruptible inspector
Roberto Burguet identifies optimal rules for a procurer when he incorporates the possibility that a supplier can bribe the inspector to misrepresent quality.
Let’s not bowl alone…but where?
Facundo Albornoz, Antonio Cabrales and Esther Hauk investigate the interplay and effects of a person’s optimal group membership and the amount of effort placed in socializing and producing within the group.
Does marriage make you healthier?
Married couples are healthier than singles. New work by Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova and Joan Llull seeks to determine the direction of causality by exploiting panel data. (This post first appeared on VoxEU.org)
To scare a politician
Does judiciary presence affect a politician’s management or possible graft of public resources? Stephan Litschig and Yves Zamboni estimate the effect of judges and prosecutors on the management of public resources in Brazil.
