@workingpaper{Asongu2015bu,
title = {A Good Turn Deserves Another: Political Stability, Corruption and Corruption-Control},
author = {Jacinta Nwachukwu C Simplice A. Asongu},
editor = {African 2015 Governance and Development Institute WP/15/039},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/A-Good-Turn-Deserves-Another.Political-stability-and-corruption.pdf},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-09-01},
abstract = {We build on existing literature and contemporary challenges to African development to assess the
role of political stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African
countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate that on the one hand, an atmosphere of political
instability should increase the confidence of impunity owing to less corruption-control. On the
other hand, in the absence such impunity from corruption, political instability further fuels
corruption. Our findings validate both hypotheses. Hence, contrary to a stream of the literature,
we establish causal evidence of a positive (negative) nexus between political stability/no violence
and corruption-control (corruption). The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Methods of
Moments. The findings are robust to contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions.
The political stability estimates are consistently significant with decreasing (increasing)
magnitudes throughout the conditional distributions of corruption (corruption-control). In other
words, the positive responsiveness of corruption-control to political stability is an increasing
function of corruption-control while the negative responsiveness of corruption to political
stability is a decreasing function of corruption. Simply put: a good turn deserves another.},
keywords = {Fragility; Corruption; Conflicts; Africa},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}

@workingpaper{Asongu2014bt,
title = {On the Effect of State fragility on Corruption},
author = {Simplice A Asongu},
editor = {African 2014 Governance and Development Institute WP/14/040},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/On-the-effect-of-state-fragility-on-corruption.pdf},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-05-01},
abstract = {The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing
from State fragility to classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important
influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data (1996-2010) from 53 African
countries, we provide evidence of a positive (negative) nexus between political stability/no
violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the
underlying paper maybe more expositional than factual and should be treated with caution.},
keywords = {Fragility; Corruption; Conflicts; Africa},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}