This paper presents new evidence on the relationship between corruption and income inequality. Using a panel data … methodology, we find that lower corruption is associated with higher income inequality in Latin America. This result is in … relationship between inequality and corruption suggests that institutional reform policies by themselves may be misguided. …

Corruption increases inequality in the society (Gupta et al, 1998) by reducing economic growth, biasing the tax system … then as democracy grows corruption decreases. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between inequality … will help to establish a more direct link than explaining inequality indirectly through corruption. It follows from the …

This paper exploits a unique dataset on corruption and informal sector employment in 476 Brazilian municipalities to … estimate whether corruption impacts GDP or income levels once variation in informal economic activity is taken into account …. Overall, I find that higher levels of corruption and a larger informal economy are generally associated with poor economic …

Drawing from the literature on the determinants of corruption, this article examines the relationship between … corruption and the nature of state of fragility. Robust empirical evidence shows a correlation between the level of corruption … neither flowing from state fragility to classical corruption nor to extreme corruption. S’enregistrant dans la littérature sur …

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between ethnic fractionalization, corruption and the growth rate of a … country. We provide a simple theoretical model. We show that a nonlinear relationship between fractionalization and corruption … exists: corruption is high in homogeneous or very fragmented countries, but low where fractionalization is intermediate. In …

social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …

Recent empirical studies find that the direct effect of corruption on growth is statistically insignificant. However …, there exists a discrepancy between these results and the intuition that corruption reduces over-all productivity, because … issue and offers a new perspective on growth effects of corruption and shows that direct and indirect growth effects of …

Several cross-country studies have found that corruption is detrimental to economic growth, but the findings are not … universally robust. We utilize the economic freedom index to examine if corruption can facilitate growth by allowing entrepreneurs … corruption is growth enhancing when economic freedom is most limited but the beneficial impact of corruption decreases as …