We investigate the relationship between economic freedom and corruption using data from U.S. states covering almost a …-country corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use a more objective measure of corruption: the number of … government officials convicted in a state for crimes related to corruption. Second, unlike previous studies, we exploit both time …

The empirical evidence on the relationship between political decentralization and corruption is far from clear. We … develope a model that analizes the relationship between decentralization and corruption and show how cost–benefit calculations … can lead public administrations to tolerate a certain degree of corruption. In the model economy, the centralized …