Do "Clean Hands" Ensure Healthy Growth? Theory and Practice in the Battle Against Corruption

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Do "Clean Hands" Ensure Healthy Growth? Theory and Practice in the Battle Against Corruption

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Coppier, Raffaella (Department of Economic and Financial Institutions, University of Macerata, Macerata (MC), Italy)
Costantini, Mauro (Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Piga, Gustavo (Department of Economics and Institutions, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy)

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high, say intermediate, so much that it makes an equilibrium with corruption and little monitoring a more growth-enhancing solution. It is also stressed that when reforms to combat corruption appear to be implausible, they tend to curb most productive investments. The model is estimated using a dynamic panel data approach for Italy. Italy has been plagued by corruption and in the late 80s and early 90s several scandals erupted which led to the well-known "Clean Hands" (Mani pulite) inquiries. Empirical results support the theoretical model.

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Paper provided by Institute for Advanced Studies in its series Economics Series with number 238.

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Length: 26 pages
Date of creation: May 2009
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C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data
D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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NEP-ALL-2009-05-23 (All new papers)
NEP-FDG-2009-05-23 (Financial Development & Growth)
NEP-REG-2009-05-23 (Regulation)

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