Firm-level corruption: Unravelling sand from grease

Arbeitspapier

This paper adds to the recent literature on firm-level corruption by relying on rich data including detailed information on the purpose and amounts of bribe payments among Vietnamese micro, small, and medium firms. Using industry-location averages to instrument for firm-level bribe payments in both a cross-sectional and a panel setting, we provide evidence of a large and significant positive association between corruption and firm performance. We further show that the type of bribe payment does matter: only the payments that can arguably be considered 'voluntary' (rather than extortive) drive this association.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-349-3
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2017/123

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
• Thema: corruption ; firm performance ; small and medium enterprises ; Viet Nam

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Demenet, Axel ; Ho, Hoang-Anh ; Morcillo, Sarah
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2017/349-3
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/163092
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ