Political uncertainty and international corruption
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Department/School
Economics
Publication Title
Applied Economics Letters
Abstract
This article uniquely considers influences of political uncertainty on corruption. Political uncertainty disturbs existing corrupt (and legal) contractual relations inducing greater corrupt activity to strengthen existing alliances and foster new ones. Results across two measures of cross-national corruption show that political assassinations increase corruption in different variations and time periods, and a general index of political instability mostly has the same effect. The influences of other factors on corruption are in general accord with the literature. These findings are generally robust to consideration of alternate dimensions of political uncertainty.
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Goel, R. K., & Saunoris, J. W. (2017). Political uncertainty and international corruption. Applied Economics Letters, 24(18), 1298–1306. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2016.1273480