OECD ÜLKELERİNDE YOLSUZLUĞUN EKONOMİK BELİRLEYENLERİ: PANEL VERİ ANALİZİ

Corruption is generally defined “as the misuse of public power for private interests” in the literature. The corruption economics has aroused as a sub-discipline of economics especially, since 1990s. Then, economists have started to analyze corruption in the frameworks of theoretical and empirical studies. Furthermore, corruption is accepted as a widespread global problem struggled by countries around the world. Due to these realities, economists try to define its determinants to suggest political challenges. In this study, corruption’s determinants classified in many categories are taken in hand in the theoretical and empirical parts. After proposing a few hypotheses related to its determinants, we interrogate the validities of them by employing panel data model. As sum, we find that only hypothesis related to the political rights is not corroborated in our model.