Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

-level governance at macroeconomic level will be captured by using the following six indicators developed by the World Bank: 1. Voice …. Rule of law; 6. Control of corruption. To capture the quality of business environment we use the Ease of doing business … index developed by the World Bank in its Doing Business report series. To measure entrepreneurship we use the World Bank …

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 … private gain”. Even though the disruption of corruption causing weak growth and investment rates has long been examined, there …

This paper aims to explain the mitigated causality nexus between corruption and inflation. For that, we apply a panel … vector autoregression model on a large sample of 180 countries over the period 1996-2014. Using two corruption indexes and … subsamples estimations, results provide evidence that the inflation-corruption nexus is bi-directional. The causal effect is more …