Estimating the effect of discretionary spending on corruptionevidence from Brazilian municipalities

Resumo

This paper analyzes the relationship between corruption and discretion of public spending in answering to the following research question: tighter procurement rules, as a proxy to discretion in spending, result in lower prevalence of corruption in Brazilian municipalities. The empirical strategy conducted here draws from a two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression approach locally estimated in each cutoff of procurement categories. Corruption data is drawn from the CGU's audit program and discretion categories from Bill 8.666/93, which regulates all procurement processes for purchases of goods/services and public works in all government levels. Results show, however, that lower discretion is associated with higher corruption prevalence to most cutoffs of Bill 8.666/93 in both purchases and works subgroups.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2012

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/10166

Temas

Políticas PúblicasFinanças PúblicasAdministração PúblicaCompras PúblicasGovernançaGestão Municipal

Palavras-chave

CorrupçãoDiscricionariedade do gasto públicoLicitaçõesPolíticas públicasAdministração públicaPolíticas públicas - BrasilCorrupção administrativa - BrasilDiscricionariedade administrativaAdministração municipal - Corrupção - BrasilLicitação pública - Brasil