Although researchers have identified corruption as a factor capable of affecting the entrepreneurial ecosystem at the … corruption and entrepreneurial intentions. This paper formulates some propositions about the complex relationship between … corruption and entrepreneurship at different levels of analysis and it suggests and explores the socio-cultural consequences of …

corruption, may affect the access to credit for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Using a sample of 68 …-2014, we investigate whether the level of corruption affects their demand for bank loans. Overall, we find that the degree of … corruption seems to play a role in the applications for bank loans when small firms are under investigation. Interestingly …

of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that corruption … is going to decrease because of the efforts of the EU to fight corruption or because of the opening of the markets to …