The Comparative Politics of Corruption: Accounting for the East Asian Paradox in Empirical Studies of Corruption, Growth and Investment

By Michael T. Rock, Heidi Bonnett. 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Emerging infrastructure policy issues in developing countries - a survey of the recent economic literature (2004, neutral): “Another puzzling finding comes from Rock and Bonnett (2004). They show that while in most regions corruption has the expected negative effects, in large East Asian countries with governments with long time horizons, corruption has had positive short- to medium-term effects on growth thanks to collus”
Why is corruption less harmful in some countries than in others (2009, background): “In particular, it has been found that corruption reduces investment by less when it is more predictable (more organised), and that corruption and investment have displayed a positive correlation in the large newly-industrialised East Asian economies that have centralised (organised) corruption netwo”
The Rule of Law and Economic Growth: Where are We? (2011, background): “Many countries in East Asia—including Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and now China and Vietnam—lacked formal institutional checks on executive discretion and had extensive corruption during their transformative growth experiences (Campos, 2001; Rock & Bonnett, 2004).”
Corruption and Democracy (2009, background): “In both polities, corrupt patron-client networks were more or less tightly controlled by political elites in government, the bureaucracy and the army (Rock, 2000, 2003; Rock and Bonnett, 2004).”
Does corruption impede economic growth in Pakistan (2013, background): “Rock and Bonnett (2004) investigated the relationship between corruption, economic growth and investment.”
Exploring the links between corruption and growth (2011, positive): “Rock and Bonnett (2004) check the robustness of the negative effect of corruption on growth and investment using four different corruption measures.”
The Effect of Corruption on Investment Growth: Evidence from Firms in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Transition Countries (2009, background): “See Rock and Bonnett (2004) for a survey of the literature.”
The Rule of Law and Economic Development (2008, background): “Many of these countries—including Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and now China and Vietnam—were characterized by extensive corruption during their transformative decades (Campos 2001, Rock & Bonnett 2004).”
Corruption and bank risk-taking: Evidence from emerging economies (2015, neutral): “Kaufmann and Wei (1999) find firms that pay more bribes actually face higher time and capital cost, against what Lui (1985) suggests. high corruption level coexist, has been observed in some emerging Asian economies for decades, such as China and Indonesia (Rock and Bonnett, 2004; Vial and Hanoteau,”