The Effect of Institutional Quality on Economic Corruption

This paper investigate the relation between institutional quality and the economic corruption by Linear Structural Relationships (LISREL) model among 35 countries like Iran by using the data of the years 2000, 2005, 2006. Results indicate that there is an indirect relation between the economic institutions quality such as government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law and economic corruption with coefficient (-0.26). This finding has been illustrated that a high institutional quality lead to less economic corruption. Corruption spread has been affected on real GDP with coefficient (-1.13). Moreoever, indirect effect of institutional quality on GDP is 0.27.