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This document examines the relationship between fiscal decentralization and corruption across countries. It finds that fiscal decentralization, measured as the subnational share of total government spending, is consistently associated with lower measured corruption. This relationship is statistically significant and robust even after controlling for other factors like economic development, civil liberties, country size, and openness. When legal origin is used as an instrument for decentralization, the estim

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Jik

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EN