Is privatization related to corruption? An empirical analysis of European countries

Noemí Peña Miguel and Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros

Public Management Review, 2019, vol. 21, issue 1, 69-95

Abstract: This study analyses the relationship between privatization and corruption in Europe over the period 1995 to 2013, taking into account the problems surrounding the issue of causality. There have been researches into the role of privatization in reducing corruption, but decisions about privatization itself are made by politicians, and so corruption could also affect decision making about privatizations. The empirical findings suggest that perceived corruption decreases as the number of privatization transactions increases, but the effect is contrary when privatizations are a more important in terms of annual revenues. Furthermore, our results indicate that overall, privatizations carried out since the early 1980s have not been effective in reducing corruption in Europe. Indeed, privatizations reforms are more carried out in the less corrupt countries.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2018.1444192

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