Corruption, Development and Institutional Design

Part 1. Political Environment

1. Electoral Rules and Constitutional Structures as Constraints on Corruption
Jana Kunicová, Susan Rose-Ackerman

2. State Capture: From Yeltsin to Putin
Evgeny Yakovlev, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

3. Democracy for Better Governance and Higher Economic Growth in the MENA Region?
Mustapha K. Nabli, Carlos Silva-Jáuregui

Part 2. Supply of Productive Factors

4. Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and Foreign Direct Investment and Spillovers
Klara Sabirianova Peter, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

5. A Portrait of the Chinese Entrepreneur
Simeon Djankov, Yingyi Qian, Gérard Roland, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

6. A Gain with a Drain? Evidence from Rural Mexico on the New Economics of the Brain Drain
Steve Boucher, Oded Stark, J. Edward Taylor

7. The Brain Drain, ‘Educated Unemployment’, Human Capital Formation, and Economic Betterment
Oded Stark, C. Simon Fan

8. An Optimal Selective Migration Policy in the Absence of Symmetric Information, and in the Presence of Skill Formation Incentives
Oded Stark, Alessandra Casarico, Silke Uebelmesser

9. International Migration, Human Capital Formation, and the Setting of Migration-Control Policies: Mapping the Gains
Oded Stark, Alessandra Casarico, Carlo Devillanova, Silke Uebelmesser

Part 3. Public Utility Reform

10. Redesigning Public Utilities: the Key Role of Micro-institutions
Claude Ménard

11. Does Regulation and Institutional Design Matter for Infrastructure Sector Performance?
Luis A. Andrés, José Luis Guasch, Stephane Straub

12. Institutional Evolution and Energy Reform in the UK
Richard Green

Keywords: Economics, Economic Systems, International Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Economic Policy