5 The Costs of Corruption

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Reading

Mauro, Paolo (1995). “Corruption and Growth.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110(3), 681–712. (PDF) Required.

Hunt, Jennifer (2007). “How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down.” Journal of Development Economics, 84(2), 574–589. (PDF) Recommended.

Olken, Benjamin A. (2007). “Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia.” Journal of Political Economy, 115(2), 200–249. (PDF) Recommended.

Fisman, Raymond, and Jakob Svensson (2007). “Are Corruption and Taxation Really Harmful to Growth? Firm-Level Evidence.” Journal of Development Economics, 83(1), 63–75. (PDF) Recommended.