Governance and Growth: A Simple Hypothesis Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Productivity Growth

By M. Olson, Naveen Sarna, A. Swamy. 2000

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Gender and corruption (2001, background): “The adverse consequences of corruption have been discussed by Klitgaard (1988), Knack and Keefer (1995), Mauro (1995 and 1998), and Olson, Sarna, and Swamy (2000).”
Economic growth with endogenous corruption: an empirical study (2011, background): “Olson et al. (2000) contest the validity of the use of panel data techniques to study the relationship between corruption and growth.”
Is Corruption an Efficient Grease (2010, neutral): “Secondly, as Rose-Ackerman (1997) argues, the highest briber may simply be the one most willing to compromise on the quality of the goods he will produce if he gets a license.”
The institutional, economic and social determinants of local government transparency (2013, background): “Finally, by making corruption less probable or more difficult, transparency provides a better context for economic growth, efficiency, and development as a means of improving governance (Mauro, 1995; Olson, Sarna, and Swamy, 2000; Meón and Wells, 2005).”
Institutional quality and trade: which institutions? Which trade? (2008, neutral): “ Olson et al. (2000) found that they are also associated with slower productivity”