In this paper, we use data from a corruption survey conducted among top politicians and high level civil servants in … 290 Swedish municipalities in 2007 to investigate the effects of government size on corruption. We construct several … measures of corruption based on the survey, and combine these corruption measures with detailed administrative municipality …

of corruption in the presence of these elites is a relevant issue for these economies. We motivate this paper with some … empirical evidence. Using cross-country information we find that the negative average effect of decentralization on corruption … documented in the literature is absent for developing countries. Then, we build an imperfect information model of corruption and …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …

is consistent with manipulations being driven by corruption of procurement officials. Manipulations concern 8.6% of all …

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …

Corruption is harmful for public finances and appears closely related to fiscal deficits. We open a new avenue in … addressing the effects of corruption on public deficits through fiscal decentralization. For a sample of 31 OECD countries over … the period 1986–2010, we find that fiscal decentralization contributes to mitigating the adverse effects of corruption on …

Using panel data from 1996 to 2005, this paper shows that the effect of government size on corruption is positive at a … findings on the relationship between corruption and government size are controversial. …

Previous studies on the effect of government size on corruption have produced mixed results. In an attempt to explain … these ambiguous results, this study investigates the effect of government size on corruption by taking into account the role … indicate that an increase in government size can lead to a decrease in corruption if the democracy level is sufficiently high …