factors as potent determinants of opportunistic behavior, corruption, and capture of government officials. Only now are these … relationships becoming conventional wisdom among specialists in economies in transition. Ten years into the transition, corruption … available data on the incidence of corruption and on institutional development, they provide preliminary evidence on the link …

catastrophe requires better tools for detecting institutional corruption and reducing its influence on public policy. This paper … corruption. Although the paper primarily focuses on banking and related regulatory agencies, similar concerns apply to other … industries. Thus, the hope is that this Working Paper can provide a useful framework for investigating institutional corruption …

Institutional corruption: the consequence of an influence within an economy of influence that illegitimately weakens …

economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies …