The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of corruption and the shadow economy on innovation in the Spanish … regions between 2000 and 2012. For this purpose, we use different proxies to approximate corruption and the shadow economy. We … find evidence that corruption negatively influences innovation according to the results of the estimations. Regarding the …

In view of the missing consensus on how corruption relates to firm innovation, this paper empirically studies the … relationship between petty corruption and product, process, marketing and organizational innovations in the post-Soviet region …

authorization and strict authorization. We find that corruption plays a critical role in the choice of the authorization regime …. Corruption exacerbates the costs of using lenient authorization, under which production of socially harmful goods is always … authorized. In contrast, corruption can be socially beneficial under strict authorization, since it can mitigate an over …

authorization and strict authorization. We find that corruption plays a critical role in the choice of the authorization regime …. Corruption exacerbates the costs of using lenient authorization, under which production of socially harmful goods is always … authorized. In contrast, corruption can be socially beneficial under strict authorization, since it can mitigate an over …

reduce local corruption and stimulate firms' investment in R&D and training to this day. We identify a causal effect by …

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether innovators perceive corruption to be systematically more … the innovation activity of the firms in the analysed countries, conditional on the fact that they consider the corruption … imply that there is a link between innovation activity of the firms, perceptions of corruption and the evaluation of …

-level corruption, and secondly it investigates the impact of corruption on firm performance in 147 economies using the data set of … gauge the firm performance. Logistic regression is employed to estimate the determinants of corruption and Ordinary Least … Square is employed to estimatethe impact of firm's corruption on its performance. It is found that corruption augments firm …

This paper aims to analyze the impact of corruption on firm innovation in Portugal, using data from the World Bank … endogeneity in the corruption variable. Our results show that corruption fosters innovation in Portugal, regardless of the … dependent variable we use to measure innovation. We have also analyzed the effect of corruption on innovation in foreign and …