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1. An Empirical Investigation of Bribery in International Trade. In: European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 40-59, (1998). Reprinted in "Corruption and Development", ed. by M. Robinson, Frank Cass Publishers, London 1998, pp. 40-59.
2. Corruption in Empirical Research - A Review. Transparency International Working Paper, November 1999.
3. Exporters' Propensity to Pay Bribes - A Trade Approach, English version of "De la propension des exportateurs à verser des pots-de-vin - l'impact sur les échanges." In: Revue Tiers Monde, No. 161, January-March 2000, 89-116.
4. How Corruption in Government Affects Public Welfare - A Review of Theories. Center for Globalization and Europeanization of the Economy, University of Goettingen, Discussion Paper 9, January 2001. Forthcoming in  The Economics of Transparency in Politics, ed. by A. Breton, G. Galeotii, P. Salmon and R. Wintrobe, Ashgate Publishing 2006.
5. Corruption and Rent-Seeking. In: Public Choice, 2002, Vol. 113:1/2 October, pp. 97-125.
6. Making Corrupt Deals - Contracting in the Shadow of the Law.  In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 48, No. 3, 2002, pp. 221-241.
7. How Confidence Facilitates Illegal Transactions.  In: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 61 (4), 2002, pp. 829-854.
8. Exporters' Ethics - Some Diverging Evidence, In: International Journal of Comparative Criminology, December 2001, Vol. 1 (2), pp. 27-44.
9. What Nurtures Corrupt Deals? On the Role of Confidence and Transaction Costs. In: Corrupt Exchanges, ed. by D. della Porta und S. Rose-Ackerman, Nomos Verlag: Baden Baden, Germany, 2002. 20-36
10. Non-Benevolent Central Banks. Joint publication with Michael Schinke, Center for Globalization and Europeanization of the Economy, University of Goettingen, Discussion Paper 16, December 2002.
11. How Corruption Affects Productivity, 2003. In Kyklos 56(4), pp. 457-474.
12. How Corruption Affects Persistent Capital Flows, 2003. In Economics of Governance, 4(3), pp. 229-244, copyright, Springer-Verlag,
13. How Corruption Affects Economic Development, 2005. In: Corporate Governance und Korruption - Wirtschaftsethische und moralökonomische Perspektiven der Bestechung und ihrer Bekämpfung. Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften, Heft 544 (Duncker & Humblot: Berlin), ed. by D. Aufderheide and M. Dabrowski, pp: 11-34.
14. How Corruption Affects Economic Development, 2004. Global Corruption Report, Transparency International, Berlin.
15. The New Institutional Economics of Corruption: Norms, Trust, and Reciprocity. Ed. jointly with M. Taube and M. Schramm, Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: London, 2004.
    
    Table of Contents
    1 Corrupt contracting: exploring the analytical capacity of New Institutional Economics and New Economic Sociology
    (JOHANN GRAF LAMBSDORFF, MARKUS TAUBE AND MATTHIAS SCHRAMM)
    2 Corruption – its spread and decline
    (HARTMUT SCHWEITZER)
    3 Why should one trust in corruption? The linkage between corruption, norms and social capital
    (PETER GRAEFF)
    4 Corruption trends
    (CHRISTIAN BJØRNSKOV AND MARTIN PALDAM)
    5 Trust and corruption
    (ERIC M. USLANER)
    6 Self-enforcing corruption: information transmission and organizational response
    (LAMBROS PECHLIVANOS)
    7 The use of intermediaries and other ‘alternatives’ to bribery
    (JOHN BRAY)
    8 Corrupt relational contracting
    (JOHANN GRAF LAMBSDORFF AND SITKI UTKU TEKSOZ)
    9 The governance mechanisms of corrupt transactions
    (DONATELLA DELLA PORTA AND ALBERTO VANNUCCI)
    10 Private ordering of corrupt transactions: the case of the Chinese guanxi networks and their challenge by a formal legal system
    (MATTHIAS SCHRAMM AND MARKUS TAUBE)
    11 Inefficient property rights and corruption: the case of accounting fraud in China
    (SONJA OPPER)
    12 Corruption in international trade – pleading for a responsible WTO
    (PETER EIGEN)
    13 The case of corruption in Nigeria
    (SOJI APAMPA)
16. Between Two Evils - Investors Prefer Grand Corruption! Discussion Paper of the Economics Faculty of Passau University, No. 31-05, January 2005.
17. Consequences and Causes of Corruption - What do We Know from a Cross-Section of Countries? Discussion Paper of the Economics Faculty of Passau University, No. 34-05, May 2005. Updated version in: International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, ed. by S. Rose-Ackerman, Edward Elgar 2006: 3-51.
18. Determining Trends for Perceived Levels of Corruption. Discussion Paper of the Economics Faculty of Passau University, No. 38-05, October 2005.
19. Hares and Stags in Argentinean Debt Restructuring. Joint publication with Christian Engelen. Discussion Paper of the Economics Faculty of Passau University, No. 40-05, December 2005.
20. Let Them Take Gifts, and Cheat Those Who Seek Influence. Joint publication with Mathias Nell. Discussion Paper of the Economics Faculty of Passau University, No. 41-05, December 2005.
21. Insider Trading among Central Bankers - a Treatise on Temptation and Policy Choice. Jointly written with Michael Schinke.  Discussion Paper of the Economics Faculty of Passau University, No. 43-06, January 2006.
22. Combating Corruption in Colombia: Perceptions and Achievements. Jointly written with Hady Fink. Discussion Paper of the Economics Faculty of Passau University, No. 44-06, January 2006.
23. The New Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform: Theory, Evidence and Policy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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