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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption

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Hauk, E.
Saez-Marti, M.

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We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of values. We show that the economy has two steady states with different levels of corruption.

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Paper provided by Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in its series Research Institute of Industrial Economics Working Papers with number 564.

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Date of creation: 2001
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Keywords: EDUCATION ; ETHICS ; CORRUPTION;

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