Are corruption and taxation really harmful to growth? Firm level evidence

Fisman, Raymond; Svensson, Jakob

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.09.009

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“…The next two models with the smaller sample sizes are respectively, one confined to those individuals who stated that it was possible to move back into their house and one that is confined to Fukushima residents. In the final column of Table 3, we use a linear probability model and the mean value of the location variable for other people from the same town as an instrument (Fisman and Svensson 2007) for the location variable. The reason we do this is that, for subjects close to the Fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant, living in the original municipality may mean some raised level of current Table 2 Concern over radiation Dependent variable, concern takes values 1-9 with 9 representing highest concern over radiation while 1 represents no concern.…”

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Going Back: Radiation and Intentions to Return amongst Households Evacuated after the Great Tohoku Earthquake

Munro

Managi

2017

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Based on a survey conducted with evacuees from the Fukushima radiation-affected region of Japan we examine intentions to return, eventually to the family homes. Many respondents do not intend to return, particularly those from tsunami-affected towns, but higher income households and those who evacuated to the same town are more likely to go back. Intentions are only weakly responsive to changes in ambient radiation levels and families with children are particularly unwilling to return to radiation affected areas, suggesting that the ongoing policy of active decontamination may have only a limited impact on eventual resettlement.

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Going Back: Radiation and Intentions to Return amongst Households Evacuated after the Great Tohoku Earthquake

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Managi

2017

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“…In order to avoid endogeneity, we adopt the strategy used in Fisman and Svensson (2007) and instrument firms' use of the Internet by the industry average. Our results, reported in column (3) of Table 4, document positive significant effects and correspond to positive findings identified by the previous literature on firm returns to private investments in ICTs.…”

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“…By contrast, for large firms the practices adopted by smaller entities may be irrelevant. The second measure, which was also used in Fisman and Svensson (2007), obtains separate measures of industries' adoption of the Internet for different types of locations. That is, it associates to firm i the adoption of the Internet by those of industry j located in a similarly sized location.…”

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Has the Internet Fostered Inclusive Innovation in the Developing World?

2016

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Based on 50,013 firm observations covering 117 developing and emerging countries, this paper shows knowledge spillover effects from industries' use of the Internet boosted the average firm's productivity and innovation performance. We document that industries' "digitization" had heterogeneous impacts: results from quantile regressions indicate that the most productive firms benefited much more than others. Wider Internet adoption rates were also of larger benefit to singleplant establishments, non-exporters and firms in remote locations, particularly to the most productive among these firms. Overall, we document that the Internet can play an important role to support inclusive innovation, conditional on firms' "absorptive" capacities.

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“…1 This paper makes several contributions to the corporate finance literature. First, most papers analyzing the effects of corruption on firm performance focus on accounting performance measures (e.g., Fisman and Svensson, 2007;Mironov, 2015). In contrast, we look at the effect of corruption on firm efficiency, defined as the ability of a firm to produce the most output with a given amount of inputs.…”

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Firm Efficiency, Foreign Ownership and CEO Gender in Corrupt Environments

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Trešl³

2017

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We study the effects of corruption on firm efficiency using a unique dataset of private firms from 14 Central and Eastern European countries from 2000 to 2013. We find that an environment characterized by a high level of corruption has an adverse effect on firm efficiency. This effect is stronger for firms with a lower propensity to behave corruptly, such as foreign-controlled firms and firms managed by female CEOs, while local firms and firms with male CEOs are not disadvantaged. We also find that an environment characterized by considerable heterogeneity in the perception of corruption is associated with an increase in firm efficiency. This effect is particularly strong for foreign-controlled firms from low corruption countries, while no effect is observed for firms managed by a female CEO.

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Are corruption and taxation really harmful to growth? Firm level evidence

Cited by 1,133 publications

References 14 publications

Going Back: Radiation and Intentions to Return amongst Households Evacuated after the Great Tohoku Earthquake

Going Back: Radiation and Intentions to Return amongst Households Evacuated after the Great Tohoku Earthquake

Has the Internet Fostered Inclusive Innovation in the Developing World?

Firm Efficiency, Foreign Ownership and CEO Gender in Corrupt Environments

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