How does multinational corporation (MNC) activity affect corruption in developing countries? The existing literature … tends to suggest that economic integration helps reduce corruption, as it increases market competition and efficiency and …, thereby leading to a high level of corruption. To test this argument, I conduct a case study on China and draw from original …

economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality …. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when they come from countries with low differences in corruption with Turkey …. Conversely, FDI flows are negatively affected when there exists a large difference in corruption between the investing country …

corruption-friendly setting caused by a weak institutional framework. We argue that corrupt elites exploit this given … corruption. …