Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alberto Chong Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, USA Author-Workplace-Email: achong6@gsu.edu Author-Name: Angelo Cozzubo Author-Workplace-Name: University of Chicago, USA Title: On Judicial Reform and Corruption in Developing and Transition Economies Abstract: We use a difference-in-difference approach for the period 2005 to 2014 and show that judicial reform is statistically linked with a reduction in corruption indices for a large sample of countries even when including country trends. This finding is robust to placebo and falsification tests, and it complements well with recent research on the role of judicial reform on economic growth. Length: 11 pages Creation-Date: 2019-09 File-URL: https://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2019/09/paper1915.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ays:ispwps:paper1915