Corruption, Development and Institutional Design

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Political Environment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Electoral Rules and Constitutional Structures as Constraints on Corruption

      • Jana Kunicová, Susan Rose-Ackerman

      Pages 3-23

   3. State Capture: From Yeltsin to Putin

      • Evgeny Yakovlev, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

      Pages 24-36

   4. Democracy for Better Governance and Higher Economic Growth in the MENA Region?

      • Mustapha K. Nabli, Carlos Silva-Jáuregui

      Pages 37-67

3. Supply of Productive Factors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and Foreign Direct Investment and Spillovers

      • Klara Sabirianova Peter, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

      Pages 71-81

   3. A Portrait of the Chinese Entrepreneur

      • Simeon Djankov, Yingyi Qian, Gérard Roland, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

      Pages 82-99

   4. A Gain with a Drain? Evidence from Rural Mexico on the New Economics of the Brain Drain

      • Steve Boucher, Oded Stark, J. Edward Taylor

      Pages 100-119

   5. The Brain Drain, ‘Educated Unemployment’, Human Capital Formation, and Economic Betterment

      • Oded Stark, C. Simon Fan

      Pages 120-151

   6. 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

      Pages 152-168

   7. International Migration, Human Capital Formation, and the Setting of Migration-Control Policies: Mapping the Gains

      • Oded Stark, Alessandra Casarico, Carlo Devillanova, Silke Uebelmesser

      Pages 169-186

4. Public Utility Reform

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Redesigning Public Utilities: the Key Role of Micro-institutions

      • Claude Ménard

      Pages 189-202

   3. Does Regulation and Institutional Design Matter for Infrastructure Sector Performance?

      • Luis A. Andrés, José Luis Guasch, Stephane Straub

      Pages 203-234

   4. Institutional Evolution and Energy Reform in the UK

      • Richard Green

      Pages 235-252

5. Back Matter

   Pages 253-265

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With the aim of providing a comprehensive analysis of institutions, and of the global economy more generally, this volume explores systems of institutions and the effect of corruption, developments in behavioural economics, the impact of immigration, and the links between democratic progress and economic growth.

• economic growth
• foreign direct investment
• Global economy
• growth
• migration
• unemployment

• Harvard University, USA

  János Kornai

• Collegium and the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

  János Kornai

• Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

  László Mátyás

• University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Gérard Roland

LUIS ANDRES World Bank, Washington DC, USA STEVE BOUCHER University of California, Davis, USA ALESSANDRA CASARICO Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy CARLO DEVILLANOVA Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy C. SIMON FAN Lingnan University, China JOSE LUIS GUASCH World Bank, Washington DC, USA RICHARD GREEN University of Southampton, UK JÁNOS KORNAI Harvard University, USA, Central European University and Collegium, Budapest, Hungary JANA KUNICOVÁ California Institute of Technology, USA LÁSZLÓ MÁTYÁS University of Budapest, Hungary CLAUDE MÉNARD Université de Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne, France MUSTAPHA NABLI World Bank, Washington DC, USA KLARA SABIRIANOVA PETER Georgia State University, USA GÉRARD ROLAND University of California, Berkeley, USA SUSAN ROSE-ACKERMAN Yale University, USA CARLOS SILVA-JÁUREGUI World Bank, Washington DC, USA ODED STARK University of Klagenfurt, Austria; University of Bonn, Germany; Warsaw University, Poland; ESRC, Cologne, Germany STEPHANE STRAUB World Bank, Washington DC, USA JAN SVEJNAR University of Michigan, USA SILKE UEBELMESSER University of Munich, Germany EVGENY YAKOVLEV Centre for Economic, Financial and International Research, Moscow, Russian Federation EKATERINA ZHURAVSKAYA Centre for Economic, Financial and International Research, Moscow, Russian Federation; Centre for Economic Policy Research, UK

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