Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality

By Benjamin A. Olken. 2009

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Subfields: Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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On the advantages and disadvantages of subjective measures (2014, methodology): “Olken (2009), for example, cites a negative correlation between the amount of money stolen from a road building project and the perceived amount of corruption involved in that project (derived from a survey questionnaire) as evidence that perceptions are misguided or uninformed.”
Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets (2007, neutral): “…the ratio of government bureaucrats’ salaries to GDP per capita (using data from Schiavo-Campo, de Tommaso, and Mukherjee [1999]) for the early 1990s (exact year differs by country) to account for the possibility that bureaucrats occupy different positions in the national income distribution.”
Corruption and firm behavior: Evidence from African ports (2014, neutral): “…studies rely primarily on self-reported measures of bribe payments to public officials by surveyed firms or on perception-based indices of corruption, both of which bear a high risk of perception and reporting bias relative to data gathered through direct observation of bribery deals (Olken 2009).”
LEGAL CORRUPTION: LEGAL CORRUPTION (2011, background): “…graphically in the last section, we interpret a higher number as more indicative of legal corruption, a negative number as more indicative of illegal corruption, 19Note also that the absolute level of perceptions of corruption may be an imperfect measure of real corruption (see Olken, 2009).”
Corruption and Productivity: Firm-level Evidence (2010, neutral): “Olken (2009) shows that this may be the case by examining a specific case of a road building project in rural Indonesia.”
What Do Corruption Indices Measure (2014, background): “Olken (2009) constructs an objective measure of corruption in road construction projects among Indonesian villages.”
Greasing the Wheels of Change: Bribery, Institutions, and New Product Introductions in Emerging Markets (2019, background): “In emerging markets, corruption remains a ubiquitous feature of doing business (Rose-Ackerman, 1998; Husted, 1999; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2006; Olken, 2009; Jeong & Weiner, 2012), and the use of bribes by both domestic and foreign firms is frequently reported in the press(1).”
Which Entrepreneurs Bribe and what do they Get from It? Exploratory Evidence from Vietnam (2012, background): “Thus, entrepreneurs that are endowed with superior human capital are better able to effectively plan and play bribery games to their advantage (cf. Guerrero & Rodriguez-Oreggia, 2008; Olken, 2009).”
Chinese aid and local corruption (2018, neutral): “due to incomplete information (Olken, 2009) or as highly corrupt environments normalize corruption which could lead to the amount of perceived corruption being lower (Knutsen et al.”
Pocketbook vs. Sociotropic Corruption Voting (2014, background): “14 Krastev and Ganev 2004; see also Olken 2009.”