An Old Plug and a New Virus: Effect of Public Corruption on the Covid-19 Immunization Progress

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan () and Hans Philipp Hofmann

No 9307, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To reduce the human and economic costs of COVID-19, different vac-cines have been developed and distributed across countries. There has been significant cross-country variation in the vaccination of people against COVID-19. In this study, we focus on public corruption to explain the significant cause of cross-country variation in immunization progress. We suggest that countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their population, controlling for other important determinants of immunization progress.

Keywords: Covid-19; pandemic; immunization; vaccination; health sector; corruption; cross-country regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 I15 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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