Corruption and the size of government: Causality tests for OECD and Latin American countries

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1013-1017

  Arvate, Paulo Roberto ^a   Curi, Andrea Zaitune ^b   Rocha, Fabiana ^b   Miessi Sanches, Fabio A ^b  

^a FUNDAÇÃO GETÚLIO VARGAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GOVERNMENT; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; IMF; OECD;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 77954256921     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850802676207     Document Type: Article

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