An Old Plug and a New Virus: Effect of Public Corruption on the Covid-19 Immunization Progress
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 9307
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To reduce the human and economic costs of COVID-19, different vac-cines have been developed and distributed across countries. There has been significant cross-country variation in the vaccination of people against COVID-19. In this study, we focus on public corruption to explain the significant cause of cross-country variation in immunization progress. We suggest that countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their population, controlling for other important determinants of immunization progress.
Public Choice
Empirical and Theoretical Methods