Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Finan, Frederico; Mazzocco, Maurizio
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/735508
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: Electoral accountability; field experiment; malfeasance; Mexico; audits; MODEL; INFORMATION

摘要

In this paper, we develop a dynamic model of politicians who can engage in corruption. The model provides important insights into the determinants of corruption and how to design policies to combat it. We estimate the model using data from Brazil to measure voters' willingness to pay for various commonly proposed anticorruption policies, such as increasing audit probabilities, raising politicians' wages, and extending term limits. We document that while audit policies effectively reduce corruption, a multipronged approach that bundles an audit policy with other policies can achieve much higher welfare gains.