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Corruption Breeds Corruption

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  • Anirban Ghatak
  • Sudarshan Iyengar

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We study extortion bribe or harassment bribe as a mode of corruption in this article. Corruption is modelled as a network game in the study. We take reputation into account in this model, and assume that reputation has a direct effect on the pay-offs of the agents in this game. We find the necessary conditions to make corruption as an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy against Multiple Mutations (ESSMM) in a game where players have both corruption and honesty as their strategies. ESSMM posits itself as a better tool than Evolutionarily Stable Strategy (ESS) to analyze such a situation where a society strives to eradicate traits like corruption completely. We claim that in a market norm (Ariely, 2013) oriented society, corruption breeds corruption and infects the whole society through robust asexual reproduction.

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  • Anirban Ghatak & Sudarshan Iyengar, 2014. "Corruption Breeds Corruption," Studies in Microeconomics, , vol. 2(1), pages 121-132, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:miceco:v:2:y:2014:i:1:p:121-132
    DOI: 10.1177/2321022214522730
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