Chen, Hailin; Schneider, Friedrich; Sun, Qunli - 2018 - 20 July 2018, 6th Version
This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both government size and public investment have significant...