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 …

We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public … officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability … legal equality can be considered worse in reducing corruption. Finally, corruption is significantly lower when the detection …