possibility that some features of FDI host countries, such as bureaucratic corruption, may deter inward FDI, but are positively … explicitly into account corruption level in host countries and using a firm-level data set on investment projects in 24 …

This paper studies the impact of corruption in a host country on foreign investor's preference for a joint venture … versus a wholly-owned subsidiary. There is a basic trade-off in using local partners. On the one hand, corruption makes local … hand, corruption decreases the effective protection of investor's intangible assets and lowers the probability that …

anti-corruption enforcement affect the expected quality of governance through candidate self-selection. We also show that …

Corruption and imperfect contract enforcement dramatically reduce trade. This paper estimates the reduction, using a …

transaction difficulties. But, such environments often also feature highly interventionist government, and even corruption …

In this paper we analyze the link between corruption money laundering and round-trip investment via offshore … the conclusion that there is a strong link between round-trip investment and corruption money laundering …

literature: corruption may affect a country's composition of capital inflows in a way that makes it more likely to experience a …