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

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 …

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. …

, 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. …

corruption by fostering more political accountability in elections. …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 …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …