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Corruption and the business environment in Viet Nam: An exploratory survey

Maruichi, Daisuke; Abe, Masato - 2018

This paper examines the effect of corruption on the business environment in Viet Nam. Our survey of firms operating in … Viet Nam suggests that corruption is perceived as the most severe business constraint for their operation. Also, corruption … support the hypothesis that corruption has a "sand the wheel" effect on firms' business activities. While this paper sheds …

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Taxation, infrastructure, and firm performance in developing countries

Chauvet, Lisa; Ferry, Marin - 2016

when corruption is too pervasive, and when the origin of tax revenue origin reduces government accountability. Lastly, our …

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Firm-level corruption in Vietnam

Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - 2010

This paper uses a unique panel dataset on firm-level corruption. It contains quantitative information on bribe payments …

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Taxation, corruption and the exchange rate regime

Hefeker, Carsten - 2009

The paper analyzes the relation between institutional quality, such as corruption, in a country and its monetary regime …. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption … countries with regard to the level of corruption. …

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Firm growth in multinational corporate groups

Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2008

This paper formulates an econometric firm growth model that explicitly accounts for the interdependence of firm performance within corporate networks and is in line with several economic theories on firm growth. We estimate the model for national and multinational corporate groups (MNEs) using a...

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Productive disasters? Evidence from European firm level data

Leiter, Andrea M.; Oberhofer, Harald; Raschky, Paul A. - 2007

This paper examines the impact of floods on firms' capital accumulation, employment growth and productivity by using a difference-in-difference approach and considering firms' asset structure. We find evidence that companies in flooding regions show higher growth of total assets and employment...

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Credit-constrained in Risky Activities? The Determinants of the Capital Stocks of Micro and Small Firms in Western Africa

Grimm, Michael; Lange, Simon; Lay, Jann - 2012

Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries are typically considered to be severely credit constrained. Additionally, high business risks may partly explain why the capital stocks of MSEs remain low. This article analyzes the determinants of the capital stocks of MSEs in poor...

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The within-distribution business cycle dynamics of German firms

Weber, Sebastian; Döpke, Jörg - 2006

We analyse stylised facts for Germany's business cycle at the firm level. Based on longitudinal firm-level data from the Bundesbank's balance sheet statistics covering, on average, 55,000 firms per year from 1971 to 1998, we estimate transition probabilities of a firm in a certain real sales...

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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation

Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - 2002

The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and patent applications. With a statistical matching procedure we draw an adequate control...

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Productivity, Growth, and Internationalisation: The Case of German and British High Techs

Fryges, Helmut - 2004

International engagement is often expected to improve firm performance. Especially for small technology-oriented firms, export activities may be important, being regarded as one way to amortise these firms? high product research and development costs. This paper examines the relationship between...

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