indicate that an increase in government size can lead to a decrease in corruption if the democracy level is sufficiently high …Previous studies on the effect of government size on corruption have produced mixed results. In an attempt to explain … these ambiguous results, this study investigates the effect of government size on corruption by taking into account the role …

We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …

We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …

Using panel data from 1996 to 2005, this paper shows that the effect of government size on corruption is positive at a … low level of democracy, but it is negative at a high level. This finding could fill the gaps in previous studies whose … findings on the relationship between corruption and government size are controversial. …

We reconsider the question of what determines corruption at the cross-national level, using new data and methods … corruption, as are freedom of the press, political rights, the presence of established democratic institutions, the salience of … the relational factors that we consider affect corruption, beyond the effects that they often have on bilateral trade …

I consider the “supply-side” of corruption in the context of international bribery, which I define as firms bribing … public officials abroad. I present the “Bribe Payers Corruption Index” (BPCI), a non perception-based measure of cross …-border corruption, which is coherent with a simple analytical framework based on an important distinction: that between the propensities …

The problem of measuring changes in corruption internationally is significantly more daunting than that of estimating … their levels. We compute trends in corruption for groups of geographically proximate countries, based on the geographic … distribution of cases of cross-border bribes, and confirm that geographic variations in corruption are greater than time variations …

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and the composition of public expenditures. First, I derive a … theoretical model that links the degree of corruption in a country - to be understood as the prevailing culture of corruption - to … corruption. This distortion occurs at the expense of spending categories that do not involve public procurement (social …

This paper examines the relation between political corruption and the composition of public spending. A rent …-seeking model is used to describe political rent creation through the composition of public spending. Political corruption is … categories characterized by high-technology goods supplied by non-competitive industries varies positively with the Corruption …

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …