The choice between market failures and corruption

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The determinants of corruption in Italy: Regional panel data analysis (2007, background): “In order to test the hypothesis of Acemoglu and Verdier (2000) of an inverted U relationship between public expenditure and corruption, we include among regressors the squared values of public consumption and investment.”
The composition of government spending and growth: is current or capital spending better? (2007, background): “34 In other words, some sort of principal-agent problem à la Acemoglu and Verdier (2000) could be at work.”
The incidence and persistence of corruption in economic development (2006, background): “From ( 2 ), a bribe that is acceptable to a bureaucrat is one that satisfies xt ≥ (1 − p)nwt + pne pµm . (7)”
Entrepreneurship and SME growth: evidence from advanced and laggard transition economies (2011, result): “However our findings that corruption is positively associated with the growth of the firm seems to confirm the proposition advanced by Acemoglu and Verdier (1998, 2000)”