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Title: Crime and debt in Italian regions
Authors: Oldani, Chiara 
Journal: PUBLIC FINANCE REVIEW 
Issue Date: 2025
Abstract: 
The paper investigates to what extent Italian regions’ debt after 2007 has been influenced by the crim-inal behavior of elected politicians and public officials, and by swaps, a neglected aspect in the litera-ture. Elected politicians and public officials have been pressured to provide services, raise spending and ameliorate budget figures; these pressures could have been managed with criminal behaviors or by using swaps that enjoyed substantially reduced accounting transparency and weak monitoring. Panel data results on yearly data of Italian regions from 2007 to 2021 confirm that regions’ debt has been significantly influenced by the criminal behavior of elected politicians and public officials; a greater negative market value of swaps reduced the possibility to raise further debt. The political econ-omy of debt reduction after the pandemic crisis should consolidate the fight against corruption, and provide a clear economic and legal framework for debt-related transactions.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2067/53174
ISSN: 1091-1421
DOI: 10.1177/10911421251338352
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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