Windfall government revenues may generate an increase in the occurrence of corruption by reducing the degree of political accountability. This paper empirically investigates the relationship between the accrual of large financial transfers from a central level of government and the incidence of corruption at the local level. To this purpose we analyze the case of EU funding to Southern Italy and exploit within municipality variation in the flow of funds between 2007 and 2014. Our estimates show a statistically significant positive effect of transfers on corruption crimes: in the absence of EU funds disbursements the yearly number of white collar crimes in the South of Italy would have been 4% lower.

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败坏了。欧盟资助意大利南部的证据

意外的政府收入可以通过减少政治责任的程度来增加腐败的发生。本文从经验上研究了从中央政府层面大笔资金转移的累积与地方层面腐败发生率之间的关系。为此，我们分析了欧盟向意大利南部提供资金的情况，并在2007年至2014年间利用市政当局在资金流中的变化进行了研究。我们的估算显示，转移支付对腐败犯罪具有统计学上的显着积极影响：在没有欧盟资金支付的情况下，在意大利南部，每年白领犯罪的数量将减少4％。