We study the effect of decentralization on corruption in a political agency model from the perspective of a region. In … a model where corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time, decentralization makes it … corruption is conditional on political competition: decentralization is associated with lower (higher) levels of corruption for …

Bureaucracy and corruption represent major causes of fiscal crises, and structural unemployment all over the world … in the future. Corruption is growing in a changing global environment and is considered one of the most important … geopolitical risks. Most of the time, corruption is associated with fraud and money laundering. European growing cities and public …

This paper examines the relation between political corruption and the composition of public spending. A rent …-seeking model is used to describe political rent creation through the composition of public spending. Political corruption is … categories characterized by high-technology goods supplied by non-competitive industries varies positively with the Corruption …

of corruption, solid political and economic stability determine significant effects on most financial variables … factors the main results hold, in that monitoring corruption, maintaining political stability and designing sound economic …

analyse social variables such as unemployment and standard of living, and political variables such as corruption, political … stability, government effectiveness, rule of law and the level of corruption in the migration of citizens. For this purpose, we … migration. The paper does not find a statistically significant influence of the level of corruption on migration. The …

and economic factors such as government scale, privatization, openness, and education on regional corruption. Applying a … fixed-effect model and IV estimation, we find that government size positively affects the incidence rate of corruption, and … department of the government leads to a 0.68%–1% increase in the number of corruption cases. While the proportion of FDI is …

This study explores the causes of corruption in China using provincial panel data. Using both fixed effects and … instrumental variables approaches, we find that provinces with greater anti-corruption efforts, higher educational attainment … heterogeneity, regulation and resources abundance breed substantial corruption. We also find that fiscal decentralization depresses …

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 …

The prediction that economic freedom is beneficial in reducing corruption has not been found to be universally robust …-country variations of the microfounded economic freedom–corruption relationship using multilevel models. Additionally, we analyse this … relationship by disentangling the determinants for several components of economic freedom because not all areas affect corruption …