ZHOU Li’ana, TAO Jingb
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a Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Morris Research Institute for Economic Policy, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
E-mail: zhoula@gsm.pku.edu.cn
b Center for Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract
Using a panel data at the provincial level during the period of 1989–2004, this paper examines the effects of social and economic factors such as government scale, privatization, openness, and education on regional corruption. Applying a fixed-effect model and IV estimation, we find that government size positively affects the incidence rate of corruption, and the effect becomes larger with the increase in the size of the core department of the government. 1% increase in the core department of the government leads to a 0.68%–1% increase in the number of corruption cases. While the proportion of FDI is positively associated with the corruption of regional officials, the ratio of the import and export trade to GDP is negatively associated with corruption. The impact of privatization on corruption is ambiguous. We also identify the significant impacts of the size and structure of the government expenditure on corruption.
corruption , government size , market-orientation
ZHOU Li’an, TAO Jing. Government size, market-orientation and regional corruption: Evidence from the provincial level panel data. Front. Econ. China, 2009, 4(3): 425‒448 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11459-009-0023-2
