SITE and the aswede network will host an academic conference at the Stockholm School of Economics to bring together researchers across all fields of economics contributing to the debate about corruption, its effects, and the optimal tools to fight it. The focus is on low and middle-income countries and the role of legal institutions, with one section in particular focusing on the experience of the transition countries in the CIS and CEE regions.

Conference keynote speakers:

• Kaushik Basu is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank. He is on leave from Cornell University where he is Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies. From December 2009 to July 2012 he served as the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Government of India at the Ministry of Finance. Till 2009 he was Chairman of the Department of Economics and during 2006-9 he was Director of the Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell.
• Abhijit Banerjee is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), along with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan and remains one of the directors of the lab. Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a Research Associate of the NBER, a CEPR research fellow, International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.
• Simeon Djankov is rector of the New Economic School in Moscow. From 2009 to 2013, he was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Bulgaria in the government of Boyko Borisov. Prior to his cabinet appointment, Simeon Djankov was a Chief economist of the finance and private sector vice-presidency of the World Bank. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics from 2004 to 2009, and he has also served as a chairman of the board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is also a member of the World Bank's Knowledge and Advisory Council, and a Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

We invite submissions of empirical and theoretical research related to all aspects of corruption and its prevention, with particular attention on developing and transition countries. Empirical, theoretical and experimental studies are equally welcome. Please send your submission to siteconferences@gmail.com before June 30, 2015. Priority is given to complete papers, but extended abstracts will be considered as well. Funds for accommodation and travel are available; please indicate upon paper submission if such assistance is required for participation.

We are looking forward to a lively discussion of an important topic and invite you to register for the conference until Friday, August 15, 2015 using the Eventbrite registration form below or via email: gun.malmquist@hhs.se, phone: 08-736 96 72.

More details about the event can be found below in conference "Call for Papers".