that corruption enhances efficiency …

between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …Using firm-level data from more than 39,000 firms in 111 economies, this paper tests the hypothesis that corruption … impedes productivity more at higher levels of regulation. The analysis finds that there is a significant negative relationship …

What sorts of conditions make some countries more prone to corruption than the others? This is an important question … for understanding how corruption arises and how to combat it. The present paper attempts to answer this question by … exploring the link between the size of the country and corruption. Economic theory suggests advantages and disadvantages of …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … grease" hypothesis by investigating whether corruption may increase productivity by helping reduce the time tax on firms … corruption is more prevalent and the legal framework is weaker, bribery is more harmful for firm-level productivity …

The international migration of high-skilled workers may trigger productivity effects at the macro level such that the … productivity, and the wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These strategies aim to address …

The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China … tax holidays to foreign direct investment. The authors also explore how productivity spillovers from FDI changed with … promotion policies. Final goods tariffs as well as input tariffs are negatively associated with firm-level productivity. However …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

simple way to combat corruption. However, empirical evidence on the corruption and regulation nexus is limited. Further, the … corruption indices used are based on experts' opinions, which may suffer from perception bias. The present paper attempts to … analysis finds a large, positive effect of regulatory burden on corruption. For the baseline results, the bribery rate is …

competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank …