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This paper analyzes how corruption in one country may be affected by its neighbors' corruption. It tries to explain why corruption is perpetuating in large geographical areas populated by developing countries despite anticorruption efforts. They argue that a lower regional corruption is associated with a lower level of national corruption. Among the potential mechanisms explaining this correlation, they include the level of economic development (GDP per capita) and non-economic mechanisms such as cross-country contagion processes of voice expressions and demands on accountability as other possible transmission mechanisms.