I examine the relation between bureaucratic corruption ('to get things done') and firm performance in Central and … data from the Amadeus database. The estimates, identified from within-firm variation, suggest that bureaucratic corruption …

The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in informal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

their governments. Eastern Europeans link their life satisfaction to higher perceived corruption and weaker government …

We investigate the role of corruption in the business environment in explaining the efficiency of within … conditional convergence model, we find evidence of a positive relationship between corruption growth and both labour and capital … misallocation dynamics, once country framework conditions are controlled for: the link between corruption and input misallocation …

Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. This paper examines whether living … since, as we show, it comes at the expense of cutting food consumption. These findings suggest that corruption is a …

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 … that there is a link between innovation activity of the firms, perceptions of corruption and the evaluation of innovation …

. Overall, our findings suggest that the proclivity to corruption of the former Communist party members has been transmitted … through family and thus sustained over time, contributing to corruption decades after the demise of the Socialist bloc …

We investigate the role of corruption in the business environment in explaining the efficiency of within … convergence model, we find evidence of a positive relationship between corruption growth and both labour and capital misallocation … one of the determinants of productivity growth, we further show that the correlation between changes in corruption and TFP …

We investigated firm-level perceptions of corruption, based on two enterprise surveys conducted across eight countries … looks at whether managers in the agribusiness sector perceive corruption differently than do managers in other sectors. The … of ten specifications do respondents from agribusiness tend to perceive corruption as occurring less frequently than do …