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

By Nauro F. Campos, Ralitza Dimova, A. Saleh. Social Science Research Network, 2010

112 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/366adad5b972713c6d7b75aa0acdc66b230275d6

Citations in the corpus

• Corruption and economic growth: New empirical evidence (2019, unknown): “Excellent reviews of the previous studies till the year 2010 are Campos et al. (2010) and Ugur (2014).”
• Taxes, corruption, and entry (2016, unknown): “In doing so, we provide some answers to the long-standing question of whether corruption hurts or helps (Méon and Sekkat 2005; Djankov et al. 2002; Shleifer and Vishny 1993) entrepreneurship (Campos et al. 2010; Dreher and Gassebner 2013; Mahagaonkar 2008).”
• Greasing the wheels? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry (2011, unknown): “However, the majority of the cross-country literature finds no evidence in favor of the greasing the wheels hypothesis, as Campos et al. (2010) show using meta-analysis.”