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. …

We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …

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 …

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 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 …

increase the green multiplier. Interestingly, corruption positively affects all multipliers. I show that the effect of … corruption can be explained by its role in easing bureaucratic and regulatory burdens. These results suggest that taking national …

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

to weak steering and supervision, lack of accountability, and heightened corruption risks (the sceptical view). Hitherto … paper addresses the competing views by studying on Sweden, a country with a dramatic growth in the number of MOCs since the … and a survey-based corruption measure for all 290 Swedish municipalities. Ultimately questioning the 'optimistic view …

-ups in a low-corruption setting: Sweden. We disaggregate the analysis to individual entrepreneurs, focus on corruption in …Does corruption affect the incentives for potential entrepreneurs to start businesses? The traditional view holds that … novel approach to this question, we combine a local government corruption index and individual-level register data on start …

-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 …