A BIG PUSH TO DETER CORRUPTION:EVIDENCE FROM ITALY

Antonio Acconcia () and Claudia Cantabene
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Claudia Cantabene: University of Napoli Federico II, Department of Economics

Giornale degli Economisti, 2008, vol. 67, issue 1, pages 75-102

Abstract: During the first half of the 1990s a pool of Italian judges carried out an investigation, named Mani Pulite (literally clean hands), that led many public officials to be prosecuted and convicted because of corruption. We show that Mani Pulite broke down the perverselinkage between corruption and public spending which characterized the Italian economy previously.

Keywords: corruption; public spending; deterrence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 H54 H55 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008

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