The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

(v) decentralization is composed of distinct, separable components, the sequencing of which is important. Lastly, (vi …

empirical evidence. Using cross-country information we find that the negative average effect of decentralization on corruption … the lack of success of decentralization in combating corruption in these economies. …Powerful local elites are quite common in developing countries. Thus, whether decentralization reduces or not the level …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

We analyze the implications of decentralization for the incentives of local governments to provide productivity … into the official economy. Corruption, measured by the size of bribes that local officials charge entrepreneurs for issuing …

In prior studies, accounting and decentralization corruption solutions have so far been analysed in isolation. In this … countering corruption. We argue that the effectiveness of decentralization as an anti-corruption barrier is complemented by the …, decentralization has a negative and decreasing effect on reducing corruption among countries with weak-quality accounting practices …