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 …

An economy is considered where a possibility to seek rents (a particular case of this activity is corruption) exists … low corruption the direct law enforcement is bene- ficial for growth, and reduces the shadow sector. However, in the … highly corrupt economy, combating the shadow economy reduces output and increases corruption, while combating corruption …

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 …