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Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?

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This paper empirically investigates the causal relationship between local government transparency and political corruption in a sample of Spain's 110 largest municipalities. After implementing a two-stage probit estimation procedure, our evidence indicates that transparency is inversely related to the likelihood of local political corruption. This result supports the hypothesis that a lack of transparency conceals corrupt activities and that an unwillingness to provide information is a good proxy of the likelihood of corruption

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European Journal of Government and Economics, 2018, vol. 7, num. 2, p. 106-122

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cc-by-nc (c) Jiménez González, Juan Luis et al., 2018

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Articles publicats en revistes  (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)

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Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?