Arbeitspapier
The transition of corruption: From poverty to honesty
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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1411
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought since 1925: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School
- Thema
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Corruption
Biogeography
Long-run development
Korruption
Lebensstandard
Entwicklung
Welt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Gundlach, Erich
Paldam, Martin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
- (wo)
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Kiel
- (wann)
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2008
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Gundlach, Erich
- Paldam, Martin
- Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
Entstanden
- 2008