survey of enterprises carried out for the GCR, we find that firms from emerging economies single out corruption and excessive … bureaucracy among the top constraints to their business operations, while excessive bureaucracy and the tax regime are identified …

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 …

The paper develops a theoretical model showing a mutual relationship between corruption and capital account … restrictions. According to the model, higher corruption induces stricter restrictions and vice versa. We test the model using panel … data for 112 countries over the period 1984-2002 and find that corruption and restrictions are indeed mutually determined …

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 …

Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse bureaucratic corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less … corruption is significantly associated with hiding output. Ó 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. …

are among the best antidotes to corruption, shadow economies, criminal injustice and poverty. The presence of accountable …