Corruption, Development and Institutional Design

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Electoral Rules and Constitutional Structures as Constraints on Corruption....Pages 3-23
State Capture: From Yeltsin to Putin....Pages 24-36
Democracy for Better Governance and Higher Economic Growth in the MENA Region?....Pages 37-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and Foreign Direct Investment and Spillovers....Pages 71-81
A Portrait of the Chinese Entrepreneur....Pages 82-99
A Gain with a Drain? Evidence from Rural Mexico on the New Economics of the Brain Drain....Pages 100-119
The Brain Drain, ‘Educated Unemployment’, Human Capital Formation, and Economic Betterment....Pages 120-151
An Optimal Selective Migration Policy in the Absence of Symmetric Information, and in the Presence of Skill Formation Incentives....Pages 152-168
International Migration, Human Capital Formation, and the Setting of Migration-Control Policies: Mapping the Gains....Pages 169-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Redesigning Public Utilities: the Key Role of Micro-institutions....Pages 189-202
Does Regulation and Institutional Design Matter for Infrastructure Sector Performance?....Pages 203-234
Institutional Evolution and Energy Reform in the UK....Pages 235-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-265