Democracy, rent seeking, public spending and growth

By H. Mohtadi, T. Roe. 2003

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Does democracy reduce corruption? (2016, result): “Our results are hence consistent with previous studies suggesting that the relationship between democracy and corruption takes the form of an inverted U.”
Rent seeking opportunities and economic growth in transitional economies (2014, background): “For example, Mork (1993) and Gray and Lowery (1996) show that rent seeking, as proxied by lobbying activities, has a strong positive impact on economic growth.”
Does foreign aid distort incentives and hurt growth? Theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries (2008, background): “Some recent related papers, not included in Persson and Tabellini (2000) and Drazen (2000), are: Svensson (2000) where the common-pool is aid transfers; Leite and Weidmann (2002) and Grossman and Mendoza (2003) and Mehlum et al. (2006) where the common-pool is natural resources; Mohtadi and Roe (19”
Corruption and Democracy (2009, background): “Taken together, this suggests that corruption follows an inverted U pattern with respect to democracy (Mohtadi and Roe, 2003: 459).”