Is the fall in overall productivity growth in the United States and other developed countries related to the rising share of the service sectors in the economy? Since services represent well over half of the U.S. gross national product, it is also important to ask whether these sectors have had...

Although corruption is ubiquitous, attitudes toward it differ among countries. The U.S. had been the only country, until 1997 OECD Convention, with an explicit extraterritorial anti-bribery law. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 employs a two-pronged approach to control the supply side...

Privatization of services that were formerly provided by governmental agencies has been an important issue for both local and national governments. The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of privatization in the context of the provision of a public good such as street cleaning and...