Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. What is corruption and why does it matter?; Part I. Corruption as an … Economic Problem: 2. Bureaucratic corruption; 3. Corruption in procurement and privatization; 4. Reducing incentives and … extortion; Part II. Corruption as a Cultural Problem: 7. Culture and corruption; Part III. Corruption as a Political Problem: 8 …

Limiting corruption and self-dealing is a precondition for making progress on the other challenges facing the world … need to understand the institutional origins of corruption and to take them in to account in designing polices. This paper … corruption. It begins by summarizing the macro-data on the overall costs of corruption and then reviews research on the costs …

In this paper we look at the impact of broad policy reforms on the levels of corruption. We use a structural break … approach to identify country specific time periods in which significant shifts in corruption levels take place. We then … equity market liberalization. We find robust support for the hypothesis that episodes of reduction in corruption levels tend …