ECONOMICS OF CORRUPTION

2000 – 2001 academic year

Lecturer: Mark Levin

(number of lectures: 14)

The course concentrates on topics from other different courses such as Microeconomics, Game Theory, Institutions and Public Economy.

The main problems are

    1. Rent-seeking activity
    2. Corruption as an economical and political phenomenon
    3. Interaction between rent-seeking corruption and shadow economy
    4. The problem of lobbing

Special attention is paid to the following questions

    • Institutional description of corruption
    • Influence of corruption on economic processes (statistical and econometric analysis)
    • Rent-seeking models (static and dynamic)
    • Corruption relationship models, corruption dynamics
    • Corruption and regulation of economic and political systems
    • Shadow economy. Scale, functions and methods of analysis
    • Russian economy and corruption

Students have to submit term paper. The topic should be related with problems that are discussed at lectures. Some examples of term paper topics:

    • Evolution of corruption
    • Corruption and foreign direct investments
    • Corruption in hierarchical structures
    • Reputation and corruption
    • Corruption and higher education
    • Corruption and tax evasion

Contract Theory

Corruption

Development Economics*

Econometrics-1

Econometrics-2

Econometrics-3

Econometrics-4 (obligotary)

Economic Statistics

Economics of Transition
(elective)

Elements of the Economics
of Transition
*

English

Financial Economics

Game Theory

Growth Theory*

Health Economics*

History of Economic
Thought (obligotary)

International Finance*

Industrial Organization-1*

Industrial Organization-2*

Institutions

International Trade*

Labor Economics*

Macroeconomics-1

Macroeconomics-2

Macroeconomics-3

Macroeconomics-4

Macroeconomics-5

Macroeconomics-6 (obligotary)

Mathematical Statistics

Mathematics for Economists

Microeconomics-1

Microeconomics-2

Microeconomics-3

Microeconomics-4

Microeconomics-5

Microeconomics-6
(obligotary)

Natural Resources

Non-Cooperative Games

Open Macroeconomics*

Political Economy

Probability Theory

Public Economics-1*

Public Economics-2*

Public Finance*

Research Seminar

Russia in global environment:
past and present (rus)

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