Private ordering of corrupt transactions: The case of the Chinese guanxi networks and their challenge by a formal legal system

The New Institutional Economics of Corruption

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 181-197

  Schramm, Matthias ^a   Taube, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203413920     Document Type: Chapter

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