Castro, Massimo Finocchiaro; Guccio, Calogero; Rizzo, Ilde - In: International Tax and Public Finance 21 (2014) 4, pp. 813-843
In this paper, we investigate the association between the efficiency of infrastructure provision and the level of corruption, in the province in which the infrastructure takes place, employing a large dataset on Italian public works contracts. We, first, estimate efficiency in public...