Geographical spread of corruption : Policies, institutions and cross-country economic interaction. Part I: Issues, theory
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Working Paper, NUPI nr 695. NUPI, 2006Abstract
The international aspects of corruption have received considerable attention
in both research and policy: What determines whether a country is highly corrupt or
not? Most research has sought to answer this question by considering each country as
reflecting the same kind of mechanism explaining both the high and low outcomes. In
this paper some of the theoretical explanations suggested in the literature are reviewed
at the same time as it suggests how the question needs to be rephrased if each country’s
corruption rate is influenced by an internationally open economic system.
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