bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large representative survey, conducted in post …. Overall, our findings suggest that the proclivity to corruption of the former Communist party members has been transmitted … through family and thus sustained over time, contributing to corruption decades after the demise of the Socialist bloc. …

and corruption the preferred one in poor countries. Analyses of their joint effects are understandably rare. This paper … provides a theoretical framework that focus on the relationship between lobbying and corruption (that is, it investigates under …, corruption and influence using data for about 4000 firms in 25 transition countries. Our results show that (a) lobbying and …

The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on … the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher … host corruption will be associated with higher foreign ownership. However, costs may exceed or exactly compensate the …

support for this argument. -- asset stripping ; law enforcement ; corruption ; transition …