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| Title: | | The transition of corruption: From poverty to honesty  |
| Authors: | | Gundlach, Erich Paldam, Martin |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Kieler Arbeitspapiere 1411 |
| Abstract: | | Measures of corruption and income are highly correlated across countries. We use prehistoric measures of biogeography as instruments for modern income levels. We find that our instrumented incomes explain the cross-country pattern of corruption just as well as do actual incomes. This result demonstrates that the long-run causality is entirely from income to corruption. Hence, there is a Corruption Transition: As countries get rich, corruption vanishes. |
| Subjects: | | Long-run development Corruption Biogeography |
| JEL: | | B25 O1 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des IfW Economists Online Kieler Arbeitspapiere, IfW
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