Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democraticinstitutions, restricts public … determines corruption islimited. This paper uses a novel dataset of political corruption in local governments,constructed from … reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibilityof re-election affects the level of rents …