Avis, Eric; Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S. - 2016
the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by … audits municipalities for their use of federal funds. We find that being audited in the past reduces future corruption by 8 … reduction in corruption comes mostly from the audits increasing the perceived threat of the non-electoral costs of engaging in …