The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … corruption by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on …

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials. …

This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our … 175 countries from 1996 to 2010. The results show that democratic elections only work in controlling corruption, if there …

component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization. …

This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease … the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: (1) Decentralization enhancing public sector … efficiency (efficiency effect), and (2) decentralization reducing the distance between bureaucrats and economic agents, which …

empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … estimate the effect of decentralization on public sector efficiency and how extreme natural disasters mediate this relationship …. The sample covers 36 OECD countries between 2006 and 2019. Our results show that tax revenue decentralization decreases …