This paper empirically studies the determinants of firm bribery activities from the perspective of ownership structure. Using the survey data of Chinese firms from the Enterprise Surveys conducted by the World Bank (2002–2012), we compare the bribery activities of firms with various forms of...

This article empirically studies why manufacturing firms bribe the government officials. Firm-level data focusing on the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) was acquired from an Enterprise Survey conducted by the World Bank between 2002 and 2012. The BRICS...

Economists have paid much attention to economic development in Southeast Asia, where corruption and bribery are believed to be ubiquitous. In this article, we study the reasons why firms bribe. Specifically, we study the effects of the competition encountered by Southeast Asian firms on their...

This empirical research investigates how bribery by firms influences their development. We acquired the most recent firm-level data from four Latin American countries — Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru — and looked into the firms' innovation capability. We also used a translog function...

The purpose of our paper is to study the reasons and decision-making processes of heterogeneous firms' bribery behavior, and how they will affect an aggregate economy's development and corruption status. We build a dynamic model to study a firm's joint decision to bribe and invest, and how the...

Although economists have long studied the impact of bribery on firms' development, the debate continues as to whether bribery ‘greases' or ‘sands' the growth of businesses. For this investigation, we acquired data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Survey conducted by the World...