International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption

International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption
(Elgar Original Reference)
Susan Rose-Ackerman

List of contributors vii

Introduction and overview Susan Rose-Ackerman xiv

PART I CORRUPTION AND POOR GOVERNANCE

AROUND THE WORLD

1 Causes and consequences of corruption: What do we know

from a cross-section of countries? 3

Johann Graf Lambsdorff

2 Measuring governance using cross-country perceptions data 52

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

3 Measuring institutions 105

Christopher Woodruff

PART II CORRUPTION AND INSTITUTIONAL

STRUCTURE

4 Bargaining for bribes: the role of institutions 127

Ray Fisman and Roberta Gatti

5 Democratic institutions and corruption: incentives and

constraints in politics 140

Jana Kunicová

6 Decentralization, corruption and government accountability 161

Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

7 Corruption, hierarchies and bureaucratic structure 189

Ajit Mishra

8 Determinants of corruption in developing countries:

the limits of conventional economic analysis 216

Mushtaq H. Khan

PART III CORRUPTION IN THE TRANSITION

FROM SOCIALISM

9 The effectiveness of anti-corruption programs:

preliminary evidence from the post-communist

transition countries 247

Alan Rousso and Franklin Steves

10 Corruption in China and Russia compared:

different legacies of central planning 278

Jens Andvig

PART IV SURVEYS AND EXPERIMENTS

11 Why are some public officials more corrupt than others? 323

Jennifer Hunt

12 Corruption and the demand for regulating capitalists 352

Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

13 Corruption in international business transactions:

the perspective of Norwegian firms 381

Tina Soreide

14 Laboratory experiments on corruption 418

Klaus Abbink

PART V SECTORAL ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICIES

15 How corruption affects service delivery and what can be

done about it 441

Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson

16 Corruption and the management of public works in Italy 457

Miriam Golden and Lucio Picci

17 Corruption in tax administration: lessons from

institutional reforms in Uganda 484

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad

18 The economics of anti-corruption: lessons from a

widespread customs reform 512

Dean Yang

19 Prescription for abuse? Pharmaceutical selection in

Bulgarian healthcare 546

Patrick Meagher

Name index 597

Subject index 604