Is the World Flat? Or Do Countries Still Matter?
This paper revisits the effects of a countrys institutional framework on individual firms behavior, in particular focusing on their propensity to comply with legal rules. The theoretical model presented here suggests that these effects may be of paramount significancecontrary to the recently popularized paradigm arguing that differences across countries have ceased to matter much. This papers empirical strategy consists of explaining the variation in measures of non-compliance with legal rules and employs a rich dataset based on thousands of firms from dozens of countries. We find that most of the variation emanates from country-wide differences in institutional quality, although some firm characteristics play a role as well. Our conclusion is that countries still matter in providing institutional infrastructure, which determines to a large extent the context within which firms operate.
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2006-12
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Authors: | Chong, Alberto ; Gradstein, Mark |
Institutions: | Inter-American Development Bank |
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