The impact of economic freedom on corruption: different patterns for rich and poor countries

Graeff, Peter; Mehlkop, Guido

doi:10.1016/s0176-2680(03)00015-6

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“…The positive relation between corruption and income distribution is supported by the findings of Paldam (2002) and, Amanullah and Eatzaz (2007). A negative relation between trade openness/economic integration and level of corruption is strongly recommended by various studies like; Gurgur-Shah (2005), Brunetti-Weder (2003) and Knack-Azfar (2003) where as a positive relation between these two is also supported by the findings of Graeff-Mehlkop (2003) and Paldam (2001).…”

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Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries

Chaudhry¹,

Shabbir²

2022

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Derivationmentioning

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Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries

Chaudhry¹,

Shabbir²

2022

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“…There is another source of issues regarding the economic freedom indicator used in the empirical literature. As shown in Graeff and Mehlkop (2003), the summary index score of economic freedom competes against its multidimensional representation of freedom 1 . The existence of ambiguous correlations between components of economic 1 The Fraser Index (2000), a frequently used index of economic freedom, consists for example of 23 components.…”

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“…Our work is closest in spirit to Graeff and Mehlkop (2003), who consider how specific components of economic freedom affect corruption. Furthermore, we find inspiration from a large literature on corruption that undermines the strength of public institutions and hampers economic growth and development (and vice-versa).…”

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“…Serra (2006) identifies these factors by indicators 3 of economic prosperity and democracy. Furthermore, Graeff and Mehlkop (2003) arguing against the use of an aggregate indicator to evaluate their effects provide support for a counter-intuitive effect of the size of government on corruption. Finally, it is generally argued that corruption differs across "regulated" and "freedom" countries given the possible non-linearities between corruption and its causes.…”

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Corruption and the effects of economic freedom

Pieroni

d’Agostino

2013

European Journal of Political Economy

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The predictions that economic freedom is beneficial in reducing corruption have not been found to be universally robust in empirical studies. The present work reviews this relationship by using firms' data in a cross-country survey and argues that approaches using aggregated macro data have not been able to explain it appropriately. We model cross-country variations of the microfounded economic freedom-corruption relationship using multilevel models. Additionally, we analyze this relationship by disentangling the determinants for several components of economic freedom because not all areas affect corruption equally. The results show that the extent of the macro-effects on the measures of (micro)economic freedom for corruption, identified by the degree of economic development of a country, can explain why a lack of competition policies and government regulations may yield more corruption. Estimations for Africa and transition economy subsamples confirm our conjectures.JEL : H10; H11; H50; K20; O5

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“…Several empirical studies find that more capitalist countries tend to have better outcomes on economic development and peace and harmony (de Soysa and Fjelde, 2010;Gartzke, 2007;Graeff and Mehlkopf, 2003;Gwartney and Lawson, 2005;Iversen, 2008), implying that economic globalization may cause an increase in people's standard of living. Following rational choice theory which argues that self-interest is central in forming people's attitudes, economic globalization could have a rightist effect on welfare opinions.…”

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The challenge of globalisation: a world-wide investigation of public attitudes on individual vs. government responsibility

Heggem

Jakobsen

2016

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In this article we explore the link between economic globalization and individual attitudes toward government responsibility. Two opposing views on the effect of globalization is presented, along with a third where the argument is that the direction is different for developed and developing countries. We thus investigate whether there is a leftist, rightist, or curvilinear effect. The hypotheses are tested using individual-level data from the World Values Survey, along with a measure of economic globalization taken from the KOF Index.Our sample consists of 79 countries from all continents. The results show that there is a general rightist effect of globalization on welfare attitudes. However, we also discovered that there is a curvilinear effect: the slope changes from leftist to rightist after a certain turning point has been reached. The evidence indicates that economic globalization has an effect on the public's welfare attitudes. When people realize their country is competitive in the global market, they will shift their attitudes to the right.

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The impact of economic freedom on corruption: different patterns for rich and poor countries

Cited by 175 publications

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Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries

Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries

Corruption and the effects of economic freedom

The challenge of globalisation: a world-wide investigation of public attitudes on individual vs. government responsibility

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