Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269510 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
FERDI Working Paper No. P229
Publisher: 
Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI), Clermont-Ferrand
Abstract: 
This paper re-examines the contribution of five major corruption determinants emphasized by the literature, through an empirical analysis based on a hierarchical modelling of firm-level corruption data. Exploiting a baseline sample of 34,358 bribe reports of firms from 71 developing and transition countries, I use a three-level estimation framework to study the contribution of the economic and human development levels, the size of governments, trade openness, and democracy. Multi-level estimations stress that the negative effect of income per capita on bribery is found to be mostly driven by improvement in human capital, more particularly by the decline in fertility rates. They also allow the reconciling of some contrasting findings of the literature on other corruption determinants, but point that the contribution of corruption determinants is context-dependent.
Subjects: 
corruption
bribery
firm
multi-level model
hierarchical model
JEL: 
D73
D02
D22
P48
O57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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