A panel study on the relationship between corruption and government size

Go, Kotera and Okada, Keisuke and Samreth, Sovannroeun (2010): A panel study on the relationship between corruption and government size.

Abstract

Using panel data from 1996 to 2005, this paper shows that the effect of government size on corruption is positive at a low level of democracy, but it is negative at a high level. This finding could fill the gaps in previous studies whose findings on the relationship between corruption and government size are controversial.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Corruption; Government size; Democracy; Panel data
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption; H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government > H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C2 - Single Equation Models ; Single Variables > C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models

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