Corruption is a significant factor which determines the quality of the “doing business” environment at large. The aim …) does gender matter in corrupt behavior and (2) can corruption be an explanatory factor for gender gaps in firm growth … the impact of corruption on employment growth, we do find a general negative impact of administrative corruption …

This paper exploits a unique dataset on corruption and informal sector employment in 476 Brazilian municipalities to … estimate whether corruption impacts GDP or income levels once variation in informal economic activity is taken into account …. Overall, I find that higher levels of corruption and a larger informal economy are generally associated with poor economic …

Recent empirical studies find that the direct effect of corruption on growth is statistically insignificant. However …, there exists a discrepancy between these results and the intuition that corruption reduces over-all productivity, because … issue and offers a new perspective on growth effects of corruption and shows that direct and indirect growth effects of …

entrepreneurship or the performance of entrepreneurs in the informal economy. Focusing on institutional heterogeneity, this paper … and both the propensity for entrepreneurship and the performance of entrepreneurs in the informal economy. …

Theory is divided over the effects of corruption on economic growth. However, the growing consensus based on the … empirical literature is that corruption is associated with negative growth outcomes. This relationship is not necessarily linear …, and causality between corruption and economic growth can run in both directions. …

Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous … entrepreneurship at both edges of the size distribution. The model is then used to analyse the effects of productivity growth …, distortions, financial and labor market frictions, and risk. Capturing entrepreneurship across the size distribution allows for …

for entrepreneurship by maximizing the welfare of the economy. We show that the corruption persists at the equilibrium …The paper presents a theoretical model with bureaucratic corruption where bribe income can leak out of an economy. In … in low prosperity economies the control of leakage may induce higher level of corruption, while the opposite is true in …

particular, corruption and regulation affect entrepreneurship to different extent, according to the underlying motivation …The idea that corruption may, in some situations, be beneficial is widely studied within the context of growth. In the … field of entrepreneurship, a unique paper by Dreher and Gassebner (2011) explicitly documents it. Their findings support the …

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. Our empirical analysis for a maximum of 43 countries over the period 2003-2005 shows …