Djankov, Simeon. <br/><br/>
Disclosure by Politicians / 
Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2009. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w14703 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w14703. .
<br/><br/> February 2009. 
<br/><br/> We collect data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by politicians in 175 countries.  Although two thirds of the countries have some disclosure laws, less than a third make disclosures available to the public. Disclosure is more extensive in richer and more democratic countries.  Disclosure is correlated with lower perceived corruption when it is public, when it identifies sources of income and conflicts of interest, and when a country is a democracy. 
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