Ever since the spectacular boom and bust cycle of the Spanish real estate industry, endemic corruption at the local …-explored political determinant, this paper investigates the effect of local and regional alignment in fomenting corruption at the Spanish … indicates that the democratic political process may be effective in corruption control if agreements can be reached to remove …

for Greece, which are novel to the literature, and media reports of zoning corruption scandals for Spain. Adjusting for …The adoption of the euro in 2002 led to an unprecedented supply of cheap mortgage credit in Greece and Spain. The … corruption. The empirical analysis relies on objective measures of zoning corruption at the regional level from 2003 through 2008 …

We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We … use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999 - 2009 … matching methods to improve the identification of the effect of corruption scandals on trust, comparing municipalities affected …

The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between the shadow economy and corruption as determinants of public … debt in the Spanish Autonomous Communities. In addition, we construct a Corruption Perception Index for those regions. Our … significant and positive impact on regional public debt. Corruption also shows a direct and significant relationship with public …

We contend that corruption must be detected as soon as possible so that corrective and preventive measures may be taken … public corruption based on economic and political factors. Unlike previous research, which is based on the perception of … corruption, we use data on actual cases of corruption. We apply the model to Spanish provinces in which actual cases of …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of corruption and the shadow economy on innovation in the Spanish … regions between 2000 and 2012. For this purpose, we use different proxies to approximate corruption and the shadow economy. We … find evidence that corruption negatively influences innovation according to the results of the estimations. Regarding the …

We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We … use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999-2009, and … methods to improve the identification of the effect of corruption scandals on trust, comparing municipalities affected by a …