The impact of economic freedom on corruption: different patterns for rich and poor countries

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Market oriented institutions and policies and economic growth: A critical survey (2006, unknown): “Berggren, 1999) and EF and corruption (e.g. Graeff and Mehlkop, 2003 ).”
Do existing corruption levels matter in controlling corruption? ☆ ☆☆: Cross-country quantile regression estimates (2009, background): “For instance, Graeff and Mehlkop (2003) find that the effect of economic freedom on corruption differs across rich and poor nations.”
Corruption and the Institutional Environment for Growth (2010, background): “We first describe our 7 Paldam (2002), Graeff and Mehlkop (2003), and Goel and Nelson (2005) have used the indexes of economic freedom to examine how economic freedom impacts corruption.”
Sunshine as Disinfectant: The Effect of State Freedom of Information Act Laws on Public Corruption (2014, background): “Some studies that use country-level data, such as Graeff and Mehlkop (2003) and Goel and Nelson (2005), find a link between the degree of economic freedom in a country and its perceived corruption 32 We chose theNegative Binomialmodel over a Poissonmodel after plotting the corruption conviction…”