Abstract
The causal effect of governmental decentralization on firm-level corruption is inconclusive due to the difficulty in obtaining a traditional instrumental variable. Circumventing the issue by using the Lewbel (2012) identification strategy, we find mild evidence of political decentralization being endogenous but no support for fiscal decentralization being endogenous.
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