Corruption has a negative impact on society and economy. The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE …) uncovered dormant possibilities for corruption and necessity for appropriate steps to be taken. We document the state of … corruption in the Czech Republic and the measures introduced to fight it. We cover sectors of society and economy according to …

survey of enterprises carried out for the GCR, we find that firms from emerging economies single out corruption and excessive …

are characterized by a fundamental inconsistency between formal and informal institutions. When formal and informal rules … clash, noncompliant behaviors proliferate, among them, tax evasion, corruption, bribery, organized criminality, and theft of …, circumvention, abuse, and/or corruption of institutional rules--comprise what we can be termed underground economies. A variety of …

obligations are potentially corruptible, and markets for corruption may therefore arise that give firms the option of producing … unofficially and evading taxes and regulations. By contrast to some previous studies that view corruption and bribery as forces … firm-specific institutional benefits available to official producers and the costs of corruption required to produce …