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 …

This paper studies the role of council size on government corruption in Brazil. We leverage on the discontinuous … corruption detected during federal audits. Results also show that having an extra councilor does not affect the size of the …

We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …

, corruption and income inequality are detrimental to social cohesion. …

-size, and government-size on perceived and experienced corruption. Four points summarize our main findings, which seem … corruption. Second, larger firms and larger government size lower corruption perceptions and experience. Third, larger cities … raise corruption perceptions and experience. Fourth, when the sample is limited to large cities, the corruption …

Corruption is often a source of contentious debate, covering different areas of knowledge, such as philosophy and … sociology. In this paper we assess the effects of corruption on economic activity and highlight the relevance of the size of the … 2019. We find an adverse effect of corruption on the level and growth of GDP per capita, but that large governments benefit …

corruption, the features of electoral cycles. The paper discusses both theory and evidence, and concludes with some speculations …