Is the Corruption in the New Member States Converging with the Rest of EU: An Empirical Investigation
33 Pages Posted: 1 Jan 2010
Date Written: January 1, 2010
Abstract
The paper takes the economic concept of convergence and applies it to corruption in the new member states and their relationship with the rest of the EU. Using the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, the analysis points to modest convergence in the EU as a whole, with the new member states as a group converging with the old member states at the rate of 0.08 points per year during the 1999-2008 period. The paper also finds that the new member states have corruption levels higher than their per capita income alone would predict and face a significant corruption handicap. However, there are large differences between countries, with Slovenia and Estonia showing no such handicap and the overall picture significantly improving during the last decade.
Keywords: corruption, Central and Eastern Europe, convergence
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