A Big Push to Deter Corruption: Evidence from Italy
Antonio Acconcia and
Claudia Cantabene
CSEF Working Papers from Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy
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 bribery and embezzlement. The impact of Mani Pulite was so much influential that since then many indicators suggest a steadily decreasing path for corruption in Italy. This paper shows that Mani Pulite was mainly effective in deterring corruption as it broke up the feed due to spending in health and social security as well as infrastructure investments, mainly those related to public buildings, sanitation, and land reclamation.
Keywords: Corruption; Public Investment; Deterrence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 H54 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-06-01, Revised 2008-05-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-law, nep-pbe, nep-reg and nep-soc
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Published in Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2008,n. 67(1), pages 75-102.
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