Corruption is harmful for public finances and appears closely related to fiscal deficits. We open a new avenue in … addressing the effects of corruption on public deficits through fiscal decentralization. For a sample of 31 OECD countries over … the period 1986–2010, we find that fiscal decentralization contributes to mitigating the adverse effects of corruption on …

We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments (FDI). Starting out from the theory of FDI, we show … that corruption can have different effects on horizontal investments, which are primarily aimed at sales to the local …-level data, we find that corruption reduces the probability that a firm will invest in a country. Moreover, when studying the …

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 …

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 …

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. …

Using panel data from 1996 to 2005, this paper shows that the effect of government size on corruption is positive at a … findings on the relationship between corruption and government size are controversial. …

Previous studies on the effect of government size on corruption have produced mixed results. In an attempt to explain … these ambiguous results, this study investigates the effect of government size on corruption by taking into account the role … indicate that an increase in government size can lead to a decrease in corruption if the democracy level is sufficiently high …