Corruption around the world: Evidence from a structural model

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 443-466

  Dreher, Axel ^a,b   Kotsogiannis, Christos ^c   McCorriston, Steve ^c  

^a KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b CESifo ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corruption; Economic development; Latent variables; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548125226     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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