of which is the reduction of corruption. First tests concerning the economic effects of JA are carried out drawing on the … absence of corruption within the judiciary as well as data gathered by the U.S. State Department as proxies. On the basis of …

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of … extent of corruption. A cluster of institutional indicators representing 'market freedom' is only significant in some … specifications. Freedom from corruption is significantly related to entrepreneurial entry, especially when the richest countries are …

Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic … freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on … techniques regressing one or some freedom indices on corruption that do not allow for grasping all the aspects of economic …

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 … of the government's budget constraint, we find strong evidence to support these predictions under different estimation …

-based estimation in fact renders the coefficient positive. …

We study economic growth in four emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). Questions addressed are … while BRIC nations have higher growth, there are significant within-group differences. China and Russia mostly showed higher …

growth. Employing Additive Mixed Panel Models with penalized splines as estimation approach, we show that changes in tax …