
| This book shows how insights from institutional economics can be used to develop a better understanding of why corruption occurs and the best policies to combat it. It will be an invaluable resource for researchers and policy-makers concerned with anti-corruption reform. |
| Johann Graf Lambsdorff is Chair in Economic Theory at the University of Passau, Germany, and senior research consultant to Transparency International. |
| List of boxes Acknowledegements A roadmap to this book 1 Introduction 2 Enemies of corruption 3 What is bad about bureaucratic corruption? An institutional economic approach 4 The dilemma of the kleptocrat: What is bad about political corruption? 5 Corruption and transactions costs: The rent-seeking perspective 6 Making corrupt deals: contracting in the shadow of the law 7 Exporters’ ethics and the art of bribery 8 How confidence facilitates illegal transactions: An empirical approach 9 Corrupt relational contracting 10 Concluding thoughts Appendix: Technical details to the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index References Subject index |
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