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Fighting corruption: To precommit or not?

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  • Ngendakuriyo, Fabien
  • Zaccour, Georges

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We consider a differential game with a corrupt government and civil society as its players. We characterize open-loop and feedback Nash equilibria and find that, whereas it is in the best interest of the government not to commit to a repression policy, civil society is better off precommitting to fight corruption.

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  • Ngendakuriyo, Fabien & Zaccour, Georges, 2013. "Fighting corruption: To precommit or not?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 120(2), pages 149-154.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:120:y:2013:i:2:p:149-154
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.025
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    Corruption; Differential games; Commitments;
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    • C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
    • H8 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues

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