A BIG PUSH TO DETER CORRUPTION:EVIDENCE FROM ITALY

During the first half of the 1990s a pool of Italian judges carried out an investigation, named Mani Pulite (literally clean hands), that led many public officials to be prosecuted and convicted because of corruption. We show that Mani Pulite broke down the perverselinkage between corruption and public spending which characterized the Italian economy previously.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Acconcia, Antonio ; Cantabene, Claudia
Published in:	Giornale degli Economisti. - GDE (Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia), Bocconi University. - Vol. 67.2008, 1, p. 75-102
Publisher:	GDE (Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia), Bocconi University
Subject:	corruption \| public spending \| deterrence

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption ; H54 - Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock ; H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions ; K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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