Eric Avis's research while affiliated with HEC Montréal - École des Hautes Études commerciales and other places
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Publications (2)
This paper studies the effects of campaign spending limits on the political entry, selection, and behavior of local politicians in Brazil. We analyze a reform that limits campaign spending for mayoral elections. The limits were implemented with a discontinuity that we exploit for causal identification. We find that stricter limits reduce reelection...
This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil’s anticorruption program, which randomly audits municipalities for their use of federal funds. We find that being audited in the past reduces future corruption by...
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... In addition, the budget is high at the local level, covering about one-fourth of total public spending, about 9% of GDP (Sakurai and Menezes-Filho 2011). Finally, the mayor is the most important local political figure in Brazil (Samuels 2003), responsible for both resource allocation and tax revenues (Rocha, Ines Fernandez Orellano, and Bugarin 2018;Avis et al. 2022). ...
... On the relationship between government audits and economic development, studies mainly focus on the impact of government audits on the transformation of the economic development mode and economic security, and most of them found that government audits can promote longterm economic development [22][23][24]. Studies about government audits and government governance have found that government audits can enhance government transparency, consolidate the operating efficiency of financial funds, improve government's disclosure of financial information [25][26][27][28], ensure financial security [29,30], and discourage or prevent the corruption of officials [31][32][33][34]. In terms of government audits and SOE governance, scholars mainly found that a government audit is conducive to improving the capacity for innovation [35], quality of earnings [36], internal controls [37], investment efficiency [38,39], and promoting good development outcomes [40]. ...
