Does Innovation Foster or Mitigate the Corruption Obstacle? Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia

Hanen Sdiri () and Mohamed Ayadi ()
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Mohamed Ayadi: SEPAL-ISG Tunis

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, No 18, 367-386

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we analyze the extent to which process or product innovation accentuates or mitigates the corruption obstacle for Tunisian firms. Using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey conducted in 2013, we empirically test how innovation accentuates or mitigates the corruption obstacle. We show that innovation has a negative and statistically significant effect on the corruption obstacle. Besides, we prove that competition and the obstacle to corruption are negatively related. This result teaches that the Tunisian firms face a rent-shifting corruption.

Keywords: Corruption; Innovation; Tunisian firms; Ordered logit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 L80 O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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