2006
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-0286-4
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Empirical determinants of corruption: A sensitivity analysis

Abstract: Many variables have been proposed by past studies as significant determinants of corruption. This paper asks if their estimated impact on corruption is robust to alteration of the information set. A “Global Sensitivity Analysis”, based on the Leamer's Extreme-Bounds Analysis gives a clear answer: five variables are robustly related to corruption. Corruption is lower in richer countries, where democratic institutions have been preserved for a long continuous period, and the population is mainly Protestant. Corr… Show more

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“…This result holds for several different measures of income. In this respect our results mirror those obtained in cross-country studies (Serra (2006)), among others. Higher population seems to increase both corruption incidence and perception, although the effect is non-linear.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 91%
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“…This result holds for several different measures of income. In this respect our results mirror those obtained in cross-country studies (Serra (2006)), among others. Higher population seems to increase both corruption incidence and perception, although the effect is non-linear.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…Recent research has, in any case, shown that the main direction of causality runs from prosperity to corruption (Gundlach and Paldam (2009) nonlinear. Nonlinearities between corruption and its determinants are largely ignored in related studies (Serra (2006)). …”
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confidence: 99%
“…Diversas áreas del conocimiento como las ciencias políticas, la sociología, la antropología, la psicología, el derecho y la economía, han realizado algunas contribuciones sobre este fenómeno y han señalado los impactos económicos que genera. Es por esto que la corrupción es uno de los temas centrales de la agenda de investigación de organismos internacionales como el Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (Aidt, 2003;Serra, 2006).…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…En este sentido, la corrupción política (CP) no solo afecta el desarrollo económico de un país, sino también su desarrollo político. A pesar de que los efectos de la CP han sido medidos y valorados en términos de su impacto económico, no existe una visión unitaria sobre este fenómeno, sino algunas controversias de orden conceptual y metodológico en la literatura académica (Serra, 2006;Soto, 2003).…”
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