We investigate the drivers of firm level productivity in catching-up economies by jointly estimating its relationship … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per … productivity. …

lead to equilibria, where politicians receive corruption bribes. Furthermore, the model implies a non …-monotonic relationship between financial openness and corruption and a positive relationship between financial openness and government size …

This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that …