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The Effects of Corruption on Growth, Investment, and Government Expenditure
Mauro, Paolo - 2006
This paper discusses the possible causes and consequences of corruption. It provides a synthetic review of recent … studies that analyze this phenomenon empirically. In addition, it presents further results on the effects of corruption on … growth and investment, and new cross-country evidence on the link between corruption and the composition of government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782010
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Gotcha! A profile of smuggling in international trade
Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - 2008
with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299136
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Gotcha!: a profile of smuggling in international trade
Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - 2008
with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264499
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Does Diversity Drive Down Trust?
Uslaner, Eric M. - 2006
Some researchers claim that diverse populations lead to less trust. Generalized trust is a core value that leads to positive outcomes in societies
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312342
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Corruption : Transcending Borders
Aleman, Esteban - 2014
Is corruption capable of spreading across national borders? This paper uses panel data for 120 countries from 1995 to … 2012 to evaluate whether the corruption levels of neighboring countries, as weighted by the relative joint border length …, affects domestic corruption. Including country fixed effects allows us to control for unobservable country specific aspects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056796
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Does Diversity Drive Down Trust?
Uslaner, Eric M. - 2006
less corruption, more social welfare and education spending, more open markets, and better functioning government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058212
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Corruption, military spending and growth
D'Agostino, Giorgio; Dunne, John Paul; Pieroni, Luca - In: Defence and peace economics 23 (2012) 6, pp. 591-604
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010219954
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Economic Growth and Military Expenditure Linkages : A Panel Data Analysis
Ahmed, Shahid - 2017
This paper has made an attempt to examine relationship between military expenditure and economic growth using 56 country panel data spanning over 1995—2011. Panel fixed effect model has been estimated for all 56 countries and sub-groups classified on the basis of World Bank income criteria....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946629
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War as an Investment
Chadefaux, Thomas - 2013
States often bargain over objects that affect their future bargaining power. A large territory, for example, is not only valuable in itself, but also as a source of raw material, population and defense. As a result, states not only try to maximize their benefits when they negotiate over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162111
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The Effects of the Security Environment on Military Expenditures : Pooled Analyses of 165 Countries, 1950-2000
Nordhaus, William D.; Oneal, John R.; Russett, Bruce - 2009
Countries' military expenditures differ greatly across both space and time. This study examines the determinants of military spending, with particular reference to the importance of the external security environment. Using the liberal-realist model of international relations, we first estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207258