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SUMMARY:amse seminar - Guillermo Toral
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DESCRIPTION:Empowering autonomous prosecutor’s offices is increasingly se
 en as a promising strategy to fight corruption. Yet we lack systematic evid
 ence about whether they are effective at reducing corruption and\, if so\, 
 why. I argue that prosecutors' use of the tools that can make them effectiv
 e anti-corruption actors (including autonomy\, discretion\, and timeliness)
  benefits from physical proximity to the communities they monitor. I test t
 his theory through a causal event study of state prosecutors in Brazil\, le
 veraging administrative data on their deployment and behavior across munici
 palities. I find that prosecutor presence causes increased anti-corruption 
 action targeted at the local government. In response to prosecutor presence
 \, local politicians hire more bureaucrats in the civil service\, rather th
 an on temporary contracts – a common vehicle for corruption in this setti
 ng. I combine these quasi-experimental findings with insights from a survey
  of politicians and in-depth interviews with prosecutors. Together\, the re
 sults suggest that physical presence can make prosecutors more effective at
  fighting corruption and provide rare causal evidence of the impact of pros
 ecutor’s offices on local governance outcomes.\\n\\nContact: Nicolas Cloo
 tens: nicolas.clootens[at]univ-amu.frRomain Ferrali: romain.ferrali[at]univ
 -amu.fr\n\nPlus d'informations: https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/en/events/
 guillermo-toral-0
LOCATION:Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevar
 d Maurice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/en/events/guillermo-toral-0
CONTACT:Nicolas Clootens: nicolas.clootens[at]univ-amu.frRomain Ferrali: ro
 main.ferrali[at]univ-amu.fr
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