The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … corruption by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

contributed to exclusion and corruption. These unfavorable effects are, in turn, likely to produce anti-American resentment …

I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International’s Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies …

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …

We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …