Corruption, efficiency and productivity in OECD countries

Salinas-Jiménez, María del Mar; Salinas‐Jiménez, Javier

doi:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2007.07.002

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“…Recent findings of Salinas‐Jiménez and Salinas‐Jiménez () also indicated that bribe has serious negative implications for productivity and technology transfer. Under these circumstances, corruption will simply reduce rather than improve efficiency and growth.…”

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Corruption and Economic Growth: Some New Empirical Evidence from a Global Sample

Sharma

Mitra

2019

J of Intl Development

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This paper assesses the impact of corruption control and regulation quality on growth across countries over the period 1996 through 2015. After dealing with the possible endogeneity problem through the dynamic panel data models, our findings are suggestive of the positive effects of corruption control. Thus, our analysis tends to support the ‘sand the wheels' view at the aggregate level as well as for lower and lower–middle‐income countries. Similar results are also obtained for regulation quality. However, contrary to the theoretical arguments, the joint effect of regulation and corruption does not seem to be significant empirically for countries from any of the income groups. Evidence is also indicative of a positive effect on trade across countries from all income groups. Although our results failed to support the natural resource curse hypothesis, countries with efficient institutions and low level of corruption are not seen to experience any resource curse. Finally, policy implications of these findings are brought out. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Hypotheses and Literature Reviewmentioning

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Corruption and Economic Growth: Some New Empirical Evidence from a Global Sample

Sharma

Mitra

2019

J of Intl Development

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“…As the output indicator the GDP is the most available and employed indicator (see, for example, Jankauskas & Šeputienė, 2007;Casey & Christ, 2005;Salinas-Jiménez & Salinas-Jiménez, 2006) and here two indicators were retrieved from Eurostat (2014): the GDP at current market prices in euros, and in order to take purchasing power into account, the GDP at current market prices in the Purchasing Power Standard (PPS) per inhabitant. Regarding the input indicator of labour productivity, both the number of employees and the number of work hours obtained from Eurostat (2014) were used, because simply counting the workers may not take into account possible part-time workers.…”

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“…Hall and Jones (1999), after analysing 127 countries, concluded that differences in institutions and government policies are related to differences in the output per worker. In an analysis of 22 OECD countries, Salinas-Jiménez & Salinas-Jiménez (2006) showed different corruption indicators to be negatively correlated to the GDP per worker. Hence, the empirical evidence is much clearer in the case of institutional quality than in the case of social capital as a potential factor of productivity.…”

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Intangible factors and productivity: Evidence from Europe at the regional level

Kaasa¹

2018

BEH

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This study investigates how a region's labour productivity could be influenced by intangible factors such as social capital, government quality, cultural dimensions and religion -factors that have not received much attention in the previous literature. As another novelty, regional-level data (78 regions of 22 European countries) were analysed. In order to take into account the relationships between various factors of productivity, the structural equation modelling approach is used enabling to find out both direct and indirect effects. The results showed institutional trust and civic participation to be the most important for productivity. Individualism appeared to have a positive and masculinity and power distance a negative total effect on labour productivity.JEL Classifications: J24, K40, O40, R11

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“…Corruption is decisively responsible for political instability, economic underdevelopment, low administrative efficiency, and poor governance structures around the world, destroying immense economic value and thwarting development (Chayes, ). It is usually associated with poor quality of institutions and weak public‐sector functioning, as political and economic institutions play a decisive role in setting the rules and constraints on human behavior (Salinas‐Jimenez & Salinas‐Jimenez, ). Some conditions that allow corruption to flourish include the size of the public sector, the quality of regulation, the degree of economic competition, the government's structure, the amount of decentralization, and the cultural history (Goel & Nelson, ; Jain, ; Tanzi, ).…”

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Corruption, Foreign Direct Investment, and International Marketing in the Western Balkans

Zeneli

2015

Thunderbird International Business Review

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Corruption is one of the major issues the WesternBalkans is facing, challenging both domestic and foreign companies in doing business. This article examines the role of corruption in hindering foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Western Balkans during the 1992-2012 time frame, using generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations applied to dynamic panel data. The empirical data point to the negative role of corruption for the attraction of FDI to the Western Balkans. This research also suggests that corruption is negatively related with the income level in the region, where countries suffering higher levels of corruption have lower incomes per capita. The other channels in which corruption hinders economic development in the Western Balkans include distorted composition of government expenditure, negative current account balances, tax evasion, lack of competitiveness, and low levels of economic innovation. This article suggests that engaging in international marketing is the best way for the Western Balkans to increase economic competitiveness, improve skills, advance levels of technology, and reduce levels of corruption.

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Corruption, efficiency and productivity in OECD countries

Cited by 64 publications

References 25 publications

Corruption and Economic Growth: Some New Empirical Evidence from a Global Sample

Corruption and Economic Growth: Some New Empirical Evidence from a Global Sample

Intangible factors and productivity: Evidence from Europe at the regional level

Corruption, Foreign Direct Investment, and International Marketing in the Western Balkans

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