We find that new states are perceived to be more corrupt even though businesses do not report more bribery in newer …

This paper documents that standard measures of corruption based on the perceptions of experts and opinion surveys and … corruption is in a country. We then show that while perceptions of corruption are significantly associated with the amount of … zero in a foreign country (greenfield investment) is significantly associated with the experience of corruption while …

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 …

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 …

of corruption. According to received wisdom, the link between globalization and corruption depends on the presence of … actors. Yet, the positive association between inward investment and corruption is mitigated in more developed economies … lowers opportunities for corrupt behavior. We test this nonlinear relationship between FDI and corruption in an instrumental …

This study adds to largely non-existent literature on corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in natural … 2020. We find that higher levels of corruption are associated with lower levels of FDI in natural resources, supporting the … likely to use the prevalence of corruption to disregard laws to attract greater FDI in natural resources to compensate for …

This paper discusses the issue of perceptions and their influence on economic processes focusing on corruption … perception. The higher the perceived corruption in an organization is, the more probable it is that a person dealing with that … organization would offer a bribe, thus supporting corruption. Since corruption perceptions are rarely based on actual experience …

This paper discusses the issue of perceptions and their influence on economic processes focusing on corruption … perception. The higher the perceived corruption in an organization is, the more probable it is that a person dealing with that … organization would offer a bribe, thus supporting corruption. Since corruption perceptions are rarely based on actual experience …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …