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

Nauro Campos, Ralitza Dimova () and Ahmad Saleh ()
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Ahmad Saleh: Brunel University

No 5334, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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. 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: economic growth; meta-regression analysis; corruption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2010-11
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Published - published as 'Corruption and Economic Growth: An Econometric Survey of the Evidence' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2016, 172 (3), 521-543

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