Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries … either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian … of political institutions in mediating the corruption-growth relationship using panel data over one hundred countries for …

In this paper, we analyze the interaction between corruption, taxation and economic growth. Our contributions are … twofold. Theoretically, in an endogenous growth model, we introduce corruption in two different ways: corruption in the public … expenditure and corruption in the public revenue. We show two opposing effects. Under certain conditions, corruption can affect …

from 1970 - 2013, taking into account structural breaks. To better reflect causality, corruption and trade are included as … causal direction. Our estimation results suggest GDP growth has one cointegrating vector relationship with corruption, EU aid … to GDP growth and a short-run unidirectional causal relationship from trade to GDP growth. Corruption (which is a …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …

over the period 2003-2014 using rich micro-data on corruption and firms. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities … administrative firm level datasets and face-to-face firm surveys, we argue that corruption mostly acts as a tax on the local economy …

, ultimately, economic growth (at the macro-level). These two opposing hypotheses on the role corruption plays in countries with … instruments such as industry-location averages of corruption to deal with endogeneity, and drawing on unique contextual … officials. This study finds initial evidence that corruption greases the wheels of commerce for Philippine SMEs, particularly in …