We empirically investigate the relationship between corruption and growth using a firm-level data set that is unique in … scale, covering almost 88,000 firms across 141 economies in 2006-2020, with wideranging corruption experiences. The scale … and detail of our data allow us to explore the corruption-growth relationship at a very local level, within industries in …

obstacles and corruption on the innovative behavior of firms and their effect on firms’ employment growth. We estimate the micro …-level interactions between corruption and institutional obstacles and test the hypothesis that corruption ‘greases the wheels’ of firm …, the paper uses a conditional recursive mixed-process model (CMP). The results show that corruption has a direct negative …

The paper discusses some channels through which corruption affects growth such as the impact of corruption on … enterprises, on the allocation of talent, and on investment. It also discusses the impact of corruption on some aspects of public …