, on average. The results provide new objective indicators of government efficiency across countries, based on a simple and … quality influence the quality of government …

This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …

We construct measures of the extent to which the 4 main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their … government advertising (0.26 million pesos of 2000) is associated with a reduction in the coverage of the government's corruption … government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable: a one standard deviation increase in monthly …

This paper examines the role of corruption in the design of monetary policies for developing countries and obtains … solution to the problem of a lack-of-credibility for developing countries, is typically not optimal in countries with serious … corruption. Second, the optimal degree of conservatism for a Rogoff (1985)-type central banker is an inverse function of the …

. While a common view is that people should blame the government rather than the political system for bad crisis management …, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government performance may cause deeper dissatisfaction with democracy even … instrumental variable design. We find that dissatisfaction with the government, which is equally driven by economic and health …

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and … generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show that government delivery quality is significantly correlated with …

In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We … model is that individuals in low trust countries want more government intervention even though the government is corrupt. We … government's role, as well as on changes in beliefs and in trust during the transition from socialism …

.e., those where groups live more spatially separately, have a substantially lower quality of government. In contrast, there is … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality …