, in-depth interviews are reported with twelve entrepreneurs, seven in the UK who send remittances to Ukraine to support … the development of business ventures, and five entrepreneurs operating in Ukraine whose business ventures are supported by …

Recent empirical studies claim that, in addition to levels of corruption, investors are deterred by its … unpredictability. I claim instead that it is petty corruption that deters investors. I employ seven subcomponents of corruption for a … this data depicts a grand, political type, embracing corruption in government policymaking and in judicial decisions as …

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 …

resource-rich countries, the decision of host governments to expropriate these investments, and the level of corruption. Higher … production. Moreover, resource production leads to high levels of corruption. Our theoretical results are confirmed by … estimations of a simultaneous equation model for 50 resource-rich countries in which we endogenize expropriation risk, corruption …

resultant prosperity. We also emphasize that enforcing regulations is a complex task given corruption, informal markets, and the …

The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on … the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher … host corruption will be associated with higher foreign ownership. However, costs may exceed or exactly compensate the …

Ukraine had had its ups and downs in recent years. It has, for example, dramatically improved its ease of doing … perspective, our findings that the number of foreign acquisitions is negatively affected by Ukraine's attempts to modernize and …

This paper empirically examines the impact of corruption on FDI in European Union countries, including candidate …, we find that corruption has a negative impact on FDI. -- FDI ; Corruption ; Efficient Grease Hypothesis ; OLS …