Given its extremely negative impact, it is not surprising that there is extensive literature
focused on understanding and reducing corruption. However, the existing academic work …

Corruption has serious economic and social costs and can undermine government
legitimacy. Economic analysis can help one understand the incentives for bribery and …

This article explores the determinants of corruption in transition economies of the post–
Soviet Union, Central–Eastern Europe, and Western industrialized states. We look in–depth …

Corruption is likely to lower the productivity of capital due to a variety of channels. Corruption
renders governments incapable or unwilling to achieve public welfare as a result of x …

Which of the democratic checks and balances–opposition parties, the judiciary, a free press–
is the most forceful? Peru has the full set of democratic institutions. In the 1990s, the secret …

Increasingly it is argued that anti-corruption efforts have not worked because they are based
on inadequate theory, suggesting that collective action theory offers a better understanding …

State capture and corruption are widespread phenomena across the globe, but their
empirical study still lacks sufficient analytical tools. This paper develops a new conceptual …

The rent-seeking theory was one of thefirst economic instruments developed tomodel
corruption in the public sector. Comparing corruption with lobbying, itproposes that the …

An organizational view of corruption is a frontier and challenging issue in the realm of
management and organization research. This article elucidates four interrelated yet …

When corruption is exposed, unknown aspects are revealed which allow us to better
understand its structures and informal norms. This book investigates the hidden order of …