Is there a consensus towards transparency: International's Corruption Perceptions Index?

Authors

Shrabani Saha
Rukmani Gounder
Jen-Je Su

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Edith Cowan University

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

School

School of Business / Finance, Economics, Markets and Accounting Research Centre

RAS ID

14555

Comments

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Saha, S. , Gounder, R., & Su, J. (2012). Is there a consensus towards transparency: International's Corruption Perceptions Index?. International Journal of Business Studies, 20(1), 1-9. Available here

Abstract

Given the clandestine nature, corruption is intrinsically a complex phenomenon and hard to measure. This paper examines whether Transparency International's corruption perception index converges towards consensus over time? Furthermore, we estimate the speed of adjustment towards general agreement. The results indicate differences in the degree of concordance, i.e. high level of agreement for the mostlyclean and most-corrupt countries but disagreement remains high for the mediumcorrupt countries. The speed of converge is high for the most-corrupt and mostlyclean countries and a decline for the medium corrupt countries.

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