E-Government as an anti-corruption strategy

Thomas Andersen

Information Economics and Policy, 2009, vol. 21, issue 3, 201-210

Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of e-government on the "control of corruption" indicator using a panel of 149 countries with two time observations (). The first differenced estimator yields a positive and economically interesting effect. By the most conservative estimate, moving from the 10th percentile to the 90th percentile in the e-government distribution implies a reduction in corruption equivalent to moving from the 10th percentile to the 23rd percentile in the control of corruption distribution. Invoking external instruments, IV results are (statistically) similar.

Keywords: Corruption; ICT; E-Government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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