 The impact of corruption and ownership on the performance of firms in Central and Eastern EuropeSandra Blagojevic and Joze Damijan Post-Communist Economies, 2013, vol. 25, issue 2, 133-158 Abstract: This article investigates how the efficiency of the business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture) affect the microeconomic performance of firms. The novelty of the study is to look at the interaction of these effects with firm ownership. We use firm-level micro data collected by the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) for 27 transition countries for 2002--09. Among other data, BEEPS collects information on different forms of corruption at the firm level and firm ownership. We find the somewhat surprising result that private firms (domestic and foreign-owned) are more involved in both informal payments and state capture. Our results also reveal that foreign-owned firms that are involved in informal payments are likely to benefit from these corrupt practices. On the other hand, state-owned firms are more likely to experience negative effects of involvement in corruption on productivity growth. After 2004 involvement of firms in corrupt practices diminished and their negative impact on firm performance declined, indicating an improvement in the stability of the business environment and law enforcement. Date: 2013 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:pocoec:v:25:y:2013:i:2:p:133-158 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/14631377.2013.787734 Access Statistics for this article Post-Communist Economies is currently edited by Roger Clarke More articles in Post-Communist Economies from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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