Corruption can arise in any bureaucracy with the authority to allocate benefits and impose costs. This paper … applies basic economic ideas of scarcity, competition, sanctions, and incentives to the control of corruption in bureaucracies …. It presents the intuitions behind the economic theories and discusses their practical value in anti-corruption policy …

"This book suggests how high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government …. Developing countries and those making a transition from socialism are particularly at risk, but corruption is a worldwide … phenomenon. Corruption creates economic inefficiencies and inequities, but reforms are possible to reduce the material benefits …

A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially … roots of corruption and include new research on topics ranging from corruption in regulation and procurement to vote buying …pt. 1. General overviews -- pt. 2. Procurement and corruption -- pt. 3. Privatization and self-dealing in private firms …