Di Tella, Rafael; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - In: Journal of Law and Economics 46 (2003) 1, pp. 269-92
We study the prices paid for basic inputs during a crackdown on corruption in the public hospitals of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, during 1996-97. We find a well-defined, negative effect on the measures used to capture corruption. Prices paid by hospitals for basic, homogeneous inputs...