IS CORRUPTION REALLY PERSISTENT?

作者:Seldadyo Harry; de Haan Jakob*
来源:Pacific Economic Review, 2011, 16(2): 192-206.
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0106.2011.00542.x

摘要

Theoretical and empirical research on corruption generally concludes that corruption is persistent. However, using International Country Risk Guide data for the period 1984-2008 for 101 countries, we find strong evidence that corruption changes over time. In the present study, corruption levels of many countries decline, whereas those of other countries rise over the same period. We find that this convergence process is not continuous: there is an improvement in world corruption in the first part of our sample period, but a worsening in the second half.

  • 出版日期2011-5