Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth

Nauro Campos, Ahmad Saleh and Ralitza Dimova

No 8140, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to systematically evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising 460 estimates of the effect of corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. We find that the main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors? affiliation (academics systematically report less negative impacts), and use of fixed-effects. We also find that publication bias, albeit somewhat acute, does not eliminate the genuine negative effect of corruption on economic growth.

Keywords: Corruption; Economic growth; Meta-regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12
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