Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in … business operations on bribe solicitations. Contestability undermines bureaucratic rent-seeking potential and this paper tries … to capture this empirically using cross-country survey data. Results show that the relatively greater contestability of …

depends on the contestability of elections, which declines as party fragmentation exceeds the long run level predicted by … of vote shares and a new index of electoral contestability over the history of the Canadian parliamentary system from …

) and on combating the (anticompetitive) abuse of market power. Contestability refers to the openness of markets. More … original economic theory of contestability defines very strict conditions for perfectly contestable markets, antitrust has … employed the term contestability in broader and in varying ways, emphasizing the role of potential competition and potential …