The economist's approach to the problem of corruption

World Development

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 341-348

  Bardhan, Pranab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; Costs; Equilibria; Methodology

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; COST; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 31344463439     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.03.011     Document Type: Article

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