This paper examines why despite increasing corruption since the 1980s, China's development has advanced so rapidly. The … author argues that a strong developmental state, the prevalence of "developmental corruption" over "predatory corruption" and … of fighting at the same time both political corruption and political opposition of individuals and organizations against …

Most of the countries in the world face corruption and struggling against to it in many aspects. Due to various … long existence of corruption around the world made an illusion to the policy makers and public as it is unavoidable and … adjustable. This creates an intuition to esquire into what makes the corruption market successful all over the world for many …

Economists tend to reduce all corruption to impersonal market-like transactions, ignoring the role of social ties in … shaping corruption. In this paper, we show that this simplification substantially limits the understanding of corruption. We … distinguish between market corruption (impersonal bribery), and network (or parochial) corruption which is conditional on the …

While assessing the economic impacts of corruption, the corruption-related transmission channels which influence … impacts corruption has on the size of the shadow economy as well as on the individual sources of long-term economic growth …, making use of a transmission channel through which corruption affects the tax burden components. Using the method of an …

Corruption is notoriously hard to measure directly, and cross-country corruption indices thus often rely on indirect … information such as country experts' or international businessmen's perceptions. Transparency International's Corruption …