Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of growth?

By Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Khalid Sekkat. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Two views on institutions and development: The grand transition vs. the primacy of institutions (2008, neutral): “A handful of papers, as e.g. Méon and Sek- kat (2005), have explored these ideas by using various econometric techniques to disentangle the two effects.”
Institutional quality and trade: which institutions? Which trade? (2008, neutral): “This is reminiscent of the results of Meon and Sekkat (2005) ,”
Corruption and Productivity: Firm-level Evidence (2010, neutral): “Méon and Sekkat (2005), based on sample of 71 countries between 1970 and 1998 and using various proxies for both corruption and governance,5 find that corruption is most harmful to growth where governance is weak.”
Public sector corruption and major earthquakes: A potentially deadly interaction (2007, background): “ Meon and Sekkat (2005) offer a good summary of the debate surrounding corruption’s positive and negative effects.”
Exploring the links between corruption and growth (2011, neutral): “On the other hand, Meon and Sekkat (2005) find a significant negative impact of corruption on growth.”
The effect of institutions on economic growth: A global analysis based on GMM dynamic panel estimation (2013, positive): “Section 3 5 See (Rodrik et al., 2004; Dollar and Kraay, 2003; Kauffman and Kraay, 2002; Méon and Sekkat, 2005; Naude, 2004; Islam and Montenegro, 2002) for empirical applications.”
Corruption and the Institutional Environment for Growth (2010, methodology): “Mendez and Sepulveda (2006) use the Freedom House democracy index, which measures civil liberties and political rights.”
Institutional factors, opportunity entrepreneurship and economic growth: Panel data evidence (2016, background): “Méon and Sekkat (2005) claim that corruption distorts the individual perception of the governance capacity, which falls in inefficiency due to a bureaucratic governance structure.”
Entrepreneurship and second-best institutions: going beyond Baumol’s typology (2010, neutral): “Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1273561 6 It is a long debated issue whether corruption greases inefficient institutions or puts sand in efficient (or inefficient) institutions (Méon and Sekkat, 2005).”