The Effects of Majority State Ownership of Significant Economic Sectors on Corruption: A Cross-Regional Comparison

摘要: Given both corruption's and bureaucratic inefficiency's importance for development good governance, understanding their causes is paramount. This paper argues that majority state ownership of most the important economic sectors a country results in higher levels corruption inefficiency. When political managerial elites own manage country's resources, they have greater incentives corrupt or inefficient behavior. These use national resources at disposal more short-term personal goals than long-term ones. tests this hypothesis on relatively underused, but often cited, data set from 1980s. Using cross-national, regression analysis, finds best predictors level inefficiency are these: significant sectors, GDP per capita, government spending, democracy. Oth...