Corruption, Political Connections, and Municipal Finance

By Alexander W. Butler, Larry Fauver, Sandra C. Mortal. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Corruption and Corporate Innovation (2019, unknown): “…political corruption (e.g., Fisman and Gatti (2002), Fredricksson, List, and Millimet (2003), Depken and LaFountain (2006), Glaeser and Saks (2006), Butler, Fauver, and Mortal (2009), and Smith (2016)). significant: An interquartile increase in our primary measure of corruption is associated with…”
• Does Political Corruption Impede Firm Innovation? Evidence from the United States (2019, methodology): “To test these competing hypotheses, we follow prior literature and use the number of corruption convictions of public officials where a firm is headquartered as a proxy for local corruption (Glaeser and Saks (2006), Butler, Fauver, and Mortal (2009), and Smith (2016)).”
• Political Geography and Stock Returns: The Value and Risk Implications of Proximity to Political Power (2012, unknown): “27 Butler, Fauver, and Mortal (2009) report that convictions are, in the aggregate, highly correlated with charges filed in the same year.”
• Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries (2019, background): “Chakravarty and Mandal (2016) attempt to estimate EKC in BRICS during 1997-2011, and found monotonically increasing EKC relationship.”
• US political corruption and firm financial policies (2016, background): “For example, Glaeser and Saks (2006), Butler et al. (2009), and Fisman and Gatti (2002) use these data.”
• Bilateral political relations and sovereign wealth fund investment (2012, unknown): “15 For example, Butler et al. (2009) find a yield penalty is paid by more corrupt and politically risky countries.”
• Sovereign bond yield spreads and sustainability: An empirical analysis of OECD countries (2019, background): “when investigating country risk and ratings (Erb et al., 1996; Haque et al., 1998; Ciocchini et al., 2003; Butler et al., 2009; Bundala, 2013).”