The article compares two approaches to the analysis of corruption: the global corruption paradigm — a downstream view … on corruption promoted by international organisations and policy makers, the so-called outsiders, and the analysis of … practices. The global corruption paradigm rests on the premises that corruption can be defined, measured and controlled. Since …

Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse bureaucratic corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less … and Ukraine than in Poland, Slovakia and Romania. A comparison of cross-country averages shows that managers in Russia and … corruption is significantly associated with hiding output …

data on 165 barter deals in Ukraine in 1997. The evidence does not support the notion that soft budget constraints, lack of … with the incidence of barter in Ukraine. We then explore an alternative explanation of barter as a mechanism to address … particular pitfalls of expansionary monetary policy in barter economies such as Ukraine and Russia …

clash, noncompliant behaviors proliferate, among them, tax evasion, corruption, bribery, organized criminality, and theft of …, circumvention, abuse, and/or corruption of institutional rules--comprise what we can be termed underground economies. A variety of …

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

political support. Combining data on the public disclosure of anti-corruption efforts and individual well-being in China, we …