industrial growth in India. The expected annual sales growth rate of an enterprise is lower where labor regulation is greater … business growth seem also to depend on a fourth element, namely, corruption. Specifically, labor regulation affects the growth … only of enterprises for which corruption is not a factor in business decisions. By contrast, power shortages seem to be a …

largest recruitment in the past decade, due in part to the interplay of informal institutions such as political clientelism …

Citizens in developing countries support politicians who provide patronage or clientelist benefits, such as government … patronage jobs that come at the expense of public health or education. Gift-giving is not necessarily traded off against public …

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 …