Corruption, Rule of Law, and Economic Efficiency: Selected Anecdotic Evidence of Bureaucratic Corruption from the Czech and Slovak Republics
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Keywords
Bureaucracy; corruption; economic efficiency; Chicago Public Choice; Virginia Public Choice; rent-seeking; rule of law;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- P3 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAW-2011-11-01 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2011-11-01 (Transition Economics)
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