information production and monitoring. I argue that the governance function has more impact on the efficiency with which resources …

also how these sectors were affected by changes in economic freedom and corruption. When we assess the role of regulation … and corruption on public investment, we find that improvements in economic freedom tend to be associated with decreases in … public investment, while reductions in corruption produce effects going in both directions. Similarly, we show that increases …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …

-seeking and corruption? This question is answered by demonstrating that Suharto, the leader of Indonesia’s New Order government …-growth with equity political coalition in which corruption played a central role. …

hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the rule of law, corruption, and accountability. These norms correlate …

, transitional corruption and other institutional and political factors. The model is based on a survey on Bulgarian banks and a …, associated mainly with the inefficiency of the judicial system, corruption, state capture, uncertain property rights, etc. …

It is widely acknowledged that corruption has negative impact on economy and society. Transition process in the Central … and Eastern Europe (CEE) uncovered dormant possibilities for corruption that consequently required appropriate steps to be … taken against. We attempted to document the state of corruption in the Czech Republic and the measures introduced to fight …

Corruption is one of the key problems facing the Russian state as it seeks to evolve out of its socialist past …. Naturally, regional patterns of corruption exist across a country as large and diverse as the Russian Federation. To explain … provides the first effort to measure differences in incidence of corruption across 40 Russian regions. We find that corruption …