De Rosa, Donato; Gooroochurn, Nishaal; Görg, Holger - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 2, pp. 115-138
effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government … officials to ease the day-to-day operation of firms. The effects of this “bribe tax” on productivity are compared to the … the bribe tax appears to have a negative impact on firm-level productivity, while the effect of the time tax is …