Matthew Harvey, PhD (@matttheeconguy.bsky.social)

First post here is to announce a new paper with my co-authors that compares methods of deterring corruption. It turns out community monitoring can be very effective if structured properly. Important implications for the current debate on corruption. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Monitoring Corruption: Can Top-Down Monitoring Crowd Out Grassroots Participation? | Economic Development and Cultural Change Abstract Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of grassroots monitoring is mixed. This paper proposes a previously unexplored mechanism that may explain this result. We argue that the presence of ef... https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730490__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hEbQZXxqn2ONbQIwO0cNPQ8QPyWLqRUPbp3ghLho-CTKHTpWy3Le7KT0SffLecViC30IrYQ9AMcjiEHSPg9NR31wmB0fKtA$