The Impact of Fiscal Transparency on Corruption: An Empirical Analysis Based on Longitudinal Data

Elina De Simone (), Gaeta Giuseppe Lucio () and Paulo Mourão
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Gaeta Giuseppe Lucio: Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L’Orientale, Naples, Italy

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2017, vol. 17, issue 4, 17

Abstract: Fiscal transparency is considered an essential feature of public financial management and is supposed to provide beneficial governance effects such as reducing corruption. This paper adds to recent empirical literature that specifically investigates the impact of fiscal information disclosure on corruption. Country-level evidence provided by previous studies is exclusively based on cross-sectional econometric analyses, while the present contribution relies on a wide-ranging, country-level dataset of 116 countries that cover a ten-year time span (2003–2012), and on dynamic panel data estimates. These innovations in terms of data and methods provide new, robust empirical support to the claim that fiscal transparency is negatively correlated with corruption.

Keywords: fiscal transparency; corruption; panel data; public administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 D73 H83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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