How does corruption in Central and Eastern Europe hurt economic growth? The paper explains theoretical framework that … is applied to the problem of corruption and reveals its application difficulties. Corruption may be understood as the … corrupt behaviour. Within comparison of both agency theory and rent-seeking we argue that corruption in general is the problem …

The paper explains theoretical framework of how corruption hurts economic growth and reveals its application … difficulties. Comparing views on corruption in terms of the problem of agency and the problem of rent-seeking we argue that … corruption in general is the problem of legal setting and its enforcement and, if badly established, it does not promote economic …

This paper examines lobbying and corruption as alternative ways of dealing with regulatory obstacles. I propose a model … that firms who join lobby groups do not stop paying bribes to bureaucrats, and firms more impacted by corruption are no …

Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the … indicator of grand corruption based on a wide range of elementary indicators. These indicators are derived from a rich … qualitative evidence on public procurement corruption and a statistical analysis of a public procurement data in Hungary. The …

This paper develops 30 novel quantitative indicators of grand corruption that operationalize 20 distinct techniques of … corruption in the context of public procurement. Each indicator rests on a thorough qualitative understanding of rent extraction … composite indicator of high-level corruption, the high degree of detail also reveals that many regulatory interventions have …

Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the … indicator of grand corruption based on a wide range of elementary indicators. These indicators are derived from a rich … qualitative evidence on public procurement corruption and a statistical analysis of a public procurement data in Hungary. The …

over the period 2003-2014 using rich micro-data on corruption and firms. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities … administrative firm level datasets and face-to-face firm surveys, we argue that corruption mostly acts as a tax on the local economy …

State capture and corruption are widespread phenomena across the globe, but their empirical study is still highly …-level contractual networks in public procurement. To this end, it first establishes a robust measure of corruption risks in public … high corruption risk organisations in the full contractual network of issuers and suppliers. These clusters and the density …

is therefore unsurprising that it is also one of the government functions most often vulnerable to corruption. While … there have been many qualitative accounts of high-level corruption in public contracting, it is only recently that … and support control of corruption …

This paper develops 30 novel quantitative indicators of grand corruption that operationalize 20 distinct techniques of … corruption in the context of public procurement. Each indicator rests on a thorough qualitative understanding of rent extraction … composite indicator of high-level corruption, the high degree of detail also reveals that many regulatory interventions have …