Jiménez González, Juan LuisAlbalate, Daniel, 1980-2020-02-042020-02-042018-07-102254-7088https://hdl.handle.net/2445/149327This 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 corruption17 p.application/pdfengcc-by-nc (c) Jiménez González, Juan Luis et al., 2018http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/esTransparència políticaCorrupció políticaAdministració localTransparency in governmentPolitical corruptionLocal governmentinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article6840402020-02-04info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess