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We attempt to improve the understanding and measurement of decentralization and its relationship with corruption in a … defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of 158 countries. It is … the incidence of corruption regardless of the choice of the estimation procedures or the measures of corruption used. In …
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This paper is a first attempt to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. Using the Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes (MIMIC) method we apply for the first time (i) the light intensity approach instead of GDP avoiding the...
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Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...
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investigated for 20 countries over the period 1995–2015. Estimation results indicated that high corruption increased inflation …Up until the 1980s, studies on corruption were dominated by disciplines of public administration and sociology. In the … International Agency, corruption, which has a negative impact on most macroeconomic indicators, is “the abuse of entrusted power for …
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