Economic Freedom versus Political Freedom: Cross-Country Influences on Corruption

By Rajeev Kumar Goel, M. A. Nelson. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Do existing corruption levels matter in controlling corruption? ☆ ☆☆: Cross-country quantile regression estimates (2009, background): “12 The effects of economic freedom and political freedom on corruption have been found to be significant in other cross-country studies of the determinants of corruption (see Chowdhury, 2004; Goel and Nelson, 2005; May et al., 2002).”
Corruption and the Institutional Environment for Growth (2010, background): “7 Paldam (2002), Graeff and Mehlkop (2003), and Goel and Nelson (2005) have used the”
Fighting Corruption in Africa: Do Existing Corruption-Control Levels Matter? (2012, unknown): “The effect of democracy is almost always positive, confirming the position that political freedoms create conditions that monitor corrupt activities(Goel & Nelson, 2005; Serra, 2006).”
Accounting and corruption: a cross‐country analysis (2010, background): “This is a result of less regulation, which brings about the possibility of more corruption.”
Corruption and the shadow economy: like oil and vinegar, like water and fire? (2011, unknown): “(Gwartney et al. 2008, p. 194).10 In addition to the “bribe payers index”, we employ a variable that measures judicial 8For more on the influence of economic freedom on corruption, see Bardan (1997) or Goel and Nelson (2005).”
The interaction effect of economic freedom and democracy on corruption: A panel cross-country analysis (2009, background): “…corruption several studies have used trade openness, government size, government intervention or composite economic freedom indices as the controlled variables (Treisman (2000), Tavares and Wacziarg (2001), Chowdhury (2004), Bohara et al. (2004), Shen and Williamson (2005), Goel and Nelson (2005)).”
Corruption and Democracy (2009, methodology): “Goel and Nelson (2005) and Fisman and Gatti (2002) also use some measure of the size of government, either the fiscal burden of government or government expenditures as a share of GDP in their corruption equations.”
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…”