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Combating Corruption: On the Interplay between Institutional Quality and Social Trust
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The aim of this paper is to explore under which conditions institutional quality leads to lower corruption. A model of a simple economy where firms both chose between bribing or not bribing bureaucrats to avoid costs and between entering the official or unofficial economy shows that the effects of increasing institutional quality may be ambiguous due to perverse effects of institutions in the unofficial economy. Employing a recent index of corruption based on objective data, the paper shows that formal institutions are more effective in combating corruption in countries with high levels of social trust. The paper concludes by discussing the welfare and political implications of the findings.
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All for All: Equality, Corruption, and Social Trust
Rothstein, B., & Uslaner, E. M. (2005) · World Politics · doi:10.1353/wp.2006.0022 · Cited by 1,529
Determinants of generalized trust: a cross-country comparison
Bjørnskov, C. (2007) · Public Choice · doi:10.1007/s11127-006-9069-1 · Cited by 969 · cited 5×
“Both points are emphasized in Bjørnskov (2007a) that show how few results from the previous literature on the determinants of social trust survive addressing these problems. as the latter is correlated with GDP per capita (r=.47 in the present sample).”
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Justesen, M. K., & Bjørnskov, C. (2014) · World Development · doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.002 · Cited by 258
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- Authors
- Bjørnskov, C.
- Venue
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2011-02
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 135-159
- ISSN
- 0022-2186 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5285
- OpenAlex
- W3123096991
- Cited by
- 179
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 22.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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