Corruption has been a feature of public institutions for centuries yet only relatively recently has it been made the subject of sustained scientific analysis. Lambsdorff shows how insights from institutional economics can be used to develop a better understanding of why corruption occurs and the...

"Inhalt / Contents" -- "Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Corruption at the Grassroots-level What Can We Know About Corruption?" -- "Abhandlungen/Original Papers" -- "Corruption and Productivity: Firm-level Evidence" -- "Bribing Behaviour and Sample Selection: Evidence from Post-Socialist...

This book constitutes a thorough analysis of the phenomenon of corruption, as seen from the perspective of New Institutional Economics - one of the most influential new schools of thought in the social sciences of the past decade