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

• Autores: Juan Luis Jiménez González , Daniel Albalate del Sol
• Localización: European Journal of Government and Economics, ISSN-e 2254-7088, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2018, págs. 106-122
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.17979/ejge.2018.7.2.4509
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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.