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Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2003
This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561191
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Governance Matters
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Zoido, Pablo - 2004
concepts: voice and accountability, political instability and violence, government effectiveness, regulatory burden, rule of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180094
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Governance Matters VI : Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2007
countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: Voice and Accountability, Political … Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049000
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Governance Matters IV : Governance Indicators for 1996-2004
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2006
Kaufmann, Kraay and Mastruzzi present the newly updated estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 209 countries and territories for five time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065070
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Corruption Around the World : Evidence from a Structural Model
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - 2005
The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices … are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication of how much economic loss is attributed to corruption. Arguably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071302
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The Economic Costs of Corruption : A Survey and New Evidence
Dreher, Axel; Herzfeld, Thomas - 2006
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic costs of corruption. Corruption affects economic growth … biases the composition of government expenditures. The second part of the paper estimates the effect of corruption on … calculate the total effect of corruption: An increase of corruption by about one index point reduces GDP growth by 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064549
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How Do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy?
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - 2005
corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and affects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative … effectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066711
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How do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy?
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - EconWPA - 2005
corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and affects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative … effectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125947
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CORRUPTION AROUND THE WORLD: EVIDENCE FROM A STRUCTURAL MODEL
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - EconWPA - 2004
The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices … are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication of how much economic loss is attributed to corruption. Arguably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125948
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How Do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - Business School, University of Exeter - 2005
corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and a?ects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative e …?ectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852477