Causes and Effects of Corruption: What Has Past Decade's Empirical Research Taught Us? A Survey

@article{Dimant2018CausesAE,
  title={Causes and Effects of Corruption: What Has Past Decade's Empirical Research Taught Us? A Survey},
  author={Eugen Dimant and Guglielmo Tosato},
  journal={ERN: Institutions \& Corruption (Topic)},
  year={2018}
}
Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional, jurisdictional, societal, and economic conditions. It is this paper's aim to provide a reassessment and a comprehensive state†of†the†art survey of existing literature on corruption and its causes and effects. A particularly strong focus is put on presenting and discussing insights resulting from empirical research and contrasting recent with older findings. 
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