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L. Escresa and L. Picci (2017) A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption. The World Bank Economic Review (2017) 31 (1): 196-219.

Download an open-access version of the paper.

The other papers of the project:

The Supply-Side of International Corruption: A New Measure and a Critique. Forthcoming in the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research.

Trends in corruption around the world. With Laarni Escresa. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research (2016) Volume 22, Issue 3, pp 543–564. The published version.

The Determinants of Cross-Border Corruption, with Laarni Escresa.

The Data: The PACI index (Excel File) (Table 4 of the published paper)

Variable names (first row of the Excel file)

ccISO2: Two-letter ISO country code

index_PA_ALL_acaa, PACI (1998-2012) (Table 4, as published in the World Bank Economic Review).

pr_poisson_PA_ALL_acaa: Pr zero cases (Table 4, as published in the World Bank Economic Review).

How to cite the data: Escresa, Laarni and Lucio Picci. 2015. A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption. The World Bank Economic Review (2017) 31 (1): 196-219.

Corresponding author: Lucio (dot) Picci (the usual symbol) unibo (the usual separator) it

When the PACI is equal to zero (countries: Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Sweden, Ireland, Denmark, Finland), it has been arbitrarily set equal to one, for the purpose of computing the log.

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