Live Free Or Bribe: On The Causal Dynamics Between Economic Freedom and Corruption in U.S. States

We investigate the relationship between economic freedom and corruption using data from U.S. states covering almost a quarter of a century. Our study advances the existing literature on several fronts. First, instead of using subjective cross-country corruption indices assembled by various investmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Apergis, Nicholas, Dincer, O., Payne, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier BV * North-Holland 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29915