Economists have a long argue that political process such as democracy and corruption are important for economic growth … mitigate the negative effect of corruption on economic growth. Although most democratic countries in our sample have a high … level of corruption, the electoral mechanism inhibits leaders from engaging in acts of corruption that cause damage to …

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the long run relationship between economic growth and corruption in Bangladesh …) including human capital and public sector explicitly at first. Then, I have incorporated corruption into the augmented model … using a specific functional form for total factor productivity and three other channels to show impact of corruption on real …

Using panel data from the International Country Risk Guide corruption index, institutional quality and political … empirical relationship between corruption and economic growth. Empirical literature has shown a linear relationship between … corruption and economic growth but hasn’t dif ferentiated between growthenhancing and growth-reducing levels of corruption. An …

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 …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption, political instability and economic growth. We … of the Arab Spring, as an exogenous shock, to measure the short-term effects of political shocks on corruption levels …

This paper examines whether corruption can be an efficiency enhancing adaptation to poor institutional environments …. Prior research on this question has not taken into account the heterogeneity of corruption or the possibility that petty … bureaucratic corruption in the form of bribery may grease the wheels of an economy at the same time that grand political corruption …

There is a strong correlation between various measures of perceived or experienced corruption and measures of economic … inequality across countries. Existing cross-national studies have found a significant effect of corruption on inequality and … poverty as well as a significant and strong effect of inequality on corruption. There seems to be a strong reciprocal causal …

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 …