copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout …Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger …

public good spillovers or economies of scale, so that absent elections, voters are indifferent about the fiscal regime. The …

Using the regression discontinuity design of close gubernatorial elections in the U.S., we identify a significant and …

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …

. We show that corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time. However, centralization … makes more difficult for citizens to detect corrupt incumbents. Thus, corruption is easier under centralization for low …

predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers …

’s corruption levels. Examining a large sample of countries covering a 20-year long period, we found robust empirical support for … the fact that increases in import openness do indeed cause reductions in corruption, a crucial aspect of governance. The … corruption is close to one third of that exercised by the level of development. Some cautious policy conclusions are derived. …

This paper investigates the effect of corruption on competition in government procurement auctions. Our assumption is … corruption is to facilitate collusion in price between firms. This can result in high public spending and inefficient allocation … which unilateral anti-corruption controls may restore price competition. …