In this paper, we use data from a corruption survey conducted among top politicians and high level civil servants in … 290 Swedish municipalities in 2007 to investigate the effects of government size on corruption. We construct several … measures of corruption based on the survey, and combine these corruption measures with detailed administrative municipality …

We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments (FDI). Starting out from the theory of FDI, we show … that corruption can have different effects on horizontal investments, which are primarily aimed at sales to the local …-level data, we find that corruption reduces the probability that a firm will invest in a country. Moreover, when studying the …

to weak steering and supervision, lack of accountability, and heightened corruption risks (the sceptical view). Hitherto … paper addresses the competing views by studying on Sweden, a country with a dramatic growth in the number of MOCs since the … and a survey-based corruption measure for all 290 Swedish municipalities. Ultimately questioning the 'optimistic view …

-ups in a low-corruption setting: Sweden. We disaggregate the analysis to individual entrepreneurs, focus on corruption in …Does corruption affect the incentives for potential entrepreneurs to start businesses? The traditional view holds that … novel approach to this question, we combine a local government corruption index and individual-level register data on start …