What Do Corruption Indices Measure

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Fortune or Evil? The Effect of Inward Foreign Direct Investment on Corruption (2016, unknown): “Where data is available, it has been shown that after controlling for legal systems, religion, economic and political development, perceptions of corruption are not sensitive to experienced corruption (Donchev and Ujhelyi 2014).”
On the advantages and disadvantages of subjective measures (2014, background): “The ffect of the returns is significant at the 1% level and is consistent with the findings of both Donchev and Ujhelyi (2009) and eligson (2006) in relation to corruption measures.”
On the relationship between corruption and migration: empirical evidence from a gravity model of migration (2015, background): “The use of indices of perceived corruption has been criticized in the past—notably by Jahedi and Méndez (2014), Donchev and Ujhelyi (2014), and Treisman (2007)—because perceived corruption may not equal actual, experienced corruption.”
The economy, corruption, and the vote: Evidence from experiments in Sweden and Moldova (2013, background): “Scholars have repeatedly shown – along numerous dimensions – that the relationship between personal experience with corruption and corruption perception is quite tenuous (Abramo, 2007; Donchev and Ujhelyi, 2009; Krastev and Ganev, 2004; Mocan, 2004; Morris, 2008; Rose and Mishler, 2007).”