State history and corruption
This paper explores the effect of state history, measured from 3500 BCE to 2000 CE, on control of corruption. Using cross-country data, we find that the relationship between the capacity to control corruption and accumulated statehood experience follows a hump-shaped (inverted-U) pattern. This result is robust to using alternative measures of state history or corruption, controlling for other measures of early development and contemporary determinants of corruption, and removing outliers.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Economics
Published in
Economics LettersVolume
218Issue
2022Publisher
ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Rights holder
© ElsevierPublisher statement
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Economics Letters and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110774Acceptance date
2022-07-26Publication date
2022-07-30Copyright date
2022ISSN
0165-1765Publisher version
Language
- en
