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This paper addresses the issue of impacts of corruption on stock market volatility. By applying panel data analysis on a set of 16 countries from 2010 to 2016, sufficient evidence for a negative relationship between corruption and stock market volatility is provided, while controlling for several macroeconomic and financial variables. | Journal of Applied Finance Banking vol. 10 no. 2 2020 117-123 ISSN 1792-6580 print version 1792-6599 online Scientific Press International Limited The effect of corruption on stock market volatility Eleftherios Spyromitros1 Abstract This paper addresses the issue of impacts of corruption on stock market volatility. By applying panel data analysis on a set of 16 countries from 2010 to 2016 sufficient evidence for a negative relationship between corruption and stock market volatility is provided while controlling for several macroeconomic and financial variables. JEL classification numbers D73 E44 G1. Keywords Corruption stock market volatility panel data. 1. Introduction The role of corruption in affecting economic growth has been extensively investigated by the existing literature providing mixed results. The seminal study by Mauro 1995 shows a negative effect of corruption on growth through its impact on investment. Méon and Sekkat 2005 argue that corruption may have a different impact on growth depending upon the quality of governing institutions. Precisely they show that under low quality governing institutions growth lowers more. In the same context the embezzlement of tax revenues by public officials leads the government to rely more on seigniorage to cover its expenditures raising thus inflationand lowering investment Blackburn and Powell 2011 . On the other hand Aidt et al. 2008 show that low quality of government institutions is not related to economic growth. Méon and Weill 2010 confirm that corruption is less damaging in countries where the institutional framework is ineffective. Moreover the role of economic freedom in modifying the impact of corruption on growth is investigated by Swaleheen and Stansel 2007 and Heckelman and Powell 2010 . It is shown that higher lower economic freedom is 1 Department of Economics Democritus University of Thrace. Article Info Received October 7 2019. Revised October 22 2019. Published online March 1 2020. 118 Eleftherios

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