questionable how effective these attempts have been to date. Corruption has a complex relationship with public sector reform …. Reform is often executed which has as one of its objectives the control of corruption, but reform itself may be a cause of … corruption according to some evidence from recent rounds of economic and public sector reform. The nature of the relationship is …

competition and political corruption. I focus on the puzzle of TVE efficiency as well as the paradox of local corporatism as a … lies in China's dual-track reform paradigm (i.e. a market-for-mass track and a state-for-elite track). Lastly, I discuss …

This paper investigates a possible impact of education corruption on economic growth in Russia. It argues that high … levels of education corruption may harm total factor productivity in the long run, primarily through lowering the level of … reduce education corruption in the short run, but can eventually lead to implementation of higher ethical standards in the …

This paper examines causes of the persistence of corruption among elected politicians in democracies. We study a … as potential ways of deterring political corruption. We identify conditions under which (i) imposing tax rate limits, (ii …) increasing compensation of elected politicians, and (iii) raising legal penalties for corruption, will increase corruption and …

. Finally, we argue that a welfare-improving reform that would reduce the corruption may not be supported by both corrupt and …This paper examines causes of the persistence of corruption among elected politicians and the effectiveness of some … commonly discussed anti-corruption reforms. We study a theoretical model of competition between two candidates who differ both …

possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when …This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …

corruption. We present a model of corruption and reform which shows that under some circumstances a particular gradualist reform …Countries making the transition to a market economy often experience an increase in corruption along with an increase … strategy is optimal. This strategy consists of temporarily relaxing control of corruption in order to provide a windfall to …