Using panel data from 1996 to 2005, this paper shows that the effect of government size on corruption is positive at a … findings on the relationship between corruption and government size are controversial. …

for the period from 1995 to 2008, considering the role of corruption in each country as an absorptive factor. The … growth if the interaction term between FDI and corruption is considered. The threshold level of corruption separating the … countries. The existence of a corruption threshold implies a counter-intuitive proposition: that FDI inhibits economic growth in …

This paper investigates the effect of foreign aid on corruption using a quantile regression method. Our estimation … results illustrate that foreign aid generally lessens corruption and, in particular, its reduction effect is larger in … countries with low levels of corruption. In addition, considering foreign aid by donors, our analysis indicates that while …

Previous studies on the effect of government size on corruption have produced mixed results. For the purpose of … explaining these ambiguous results, our study investigates the effect of government size on corruption by taking into account the … indicate that an increase in government size can lead to a decrease in corruption if democracy level is sufficiently high and …