Axel Dreher|Christos Kotsogiannis|Steve McCorriston
Corruption around the world: Evidence from a structural model
Swiss Finance Institute|ETH Zurich|University of Exeter|University of Exeter
causes consequences corruption attracted much attention recent years academics policy makers central discussion impact corruption perceptionbased indices recent research shown perceived corruption might good indicator actual corruption country paper employ structural equation modelthat treats corruption latent variable directly related underlying causes effectsto derive index corruption index corruption derived approximately 100 countries period 19761997 journal comparative economics 35 3 2007 443466