Do existing corruption levels matter in controlling corruption?. Cross-country quantile regression estimates

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 299-305

  Billger, Sherrilyn M ^a   Goel, Rajeev K ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; Democracy; Economic freedom; Government size; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; POLITICAL ECONOMY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67651121822     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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