1st Edition
The Political Economy of Corruption
1. The Political Economy of Corruption: Some New Perspectives
Chandan Kumar JHA, Ajit Mishra and Sudipta Sarangi
2. The Political Economy of Corruption: On the Link between Corruption Control and Cronyism
Kaushik Basu
3. Corruption, Institutional Trust and Legitimacy: A Vicious Circle
Amadou Boly and Robert Gillanders
4. Legal Systems and Corruption
Ruben Korsten and Andrew Samuel
5. Corruption and Optimal Enforcement
Ajit Mishra
6. A Theory of Joint Evolution of Corruption and Growth
Niloy Bose, Richard Cothren, and Nazanin Sedaghatkish
7. Corruption and the Financial Sector: An Examination of the Literature
Arusha Cooray
8. Stopping the Rot I: A Review of Models and Experimental Methods of Corruption Experiments
Ritwik Banerjee, Utteeyo Dasgupta, and Satrupa Mitra
9. Stopping the Rot II: Consequences, Causes and Policy Lessons from the Recent Experiments on Corruption
Ritwik Banerjee, Utteeyo Dasgupta and Satrupa Mitra
10. The Past, Present and Future of Research on Gender and Corruption
Justin Esarey and N. Valdes
11. The Culture-Corruption Hypothesis Revisited: Organizational Culture, Corruption and Worker Preferences
Sheheryar Banuri
12. How Advances in Information and Communication Technologies Impact Corruption?
Chandan Kumar JHA and Sudipta Sarangi
13. Corruption in Europe: The Underestimated Devil and the Role of the European Union
Ina Kubbe and Stoyan Panov
14. Tackling Corruption: Practical Perspectives
Chandan Kumar JHA and Neelesh Kumar Sah
Biography
Chandan Kumar Jha is Associate Professor of Finance at the Madden School of Business, Le Moyne College. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in economics from Louisiana State University. Some of the topics he has worked on, or is currently working on, include the evolution of gender norms, corruption, finance and economic development, crime, entrepreneurship, international trade and socioeconomic inequality such as race and gender.
Ajit Mishra is a development economist based in Bath, UK. After graduating from the Delhi School of Economics in 1993, he has been engaged in research and lecturing at various universities, including the University of Bath, University of Dundee, Delhi School of Economics, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research and Ashoka University. He has also served as Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. His key research areas include the study of corruption and governance, informal sector, inequality, vulnerability and poverty.
Sudipta Sarangi is Professor and Head of Department of Economics at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he has been a distinguished professor of business administration at Louisiana State University and a program director at the National Science Foundation. His research interests range from network theory, experimental and behavioral economics to development economics. He is a research associate of GATE, University of Lyon–St. Etienne and the Lima School of Economics.
