Size Matters: Corruption Perceptions versus Corruption Experiences by Firms

Rajeev Goel, Ummad Mazhar () and Rati Ram

No 9221, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This study uses a large firm-level data set covering more than 80 countries to explore the effects of firm-size, city-size, and government-size on perceived and experienced corruption. Four points summarize our main findings, which seem instructive and new. First, there is a broad structural similarity in the major determinants of perceived and experienced corruption. Second, larger firms and larger government size lower corruption perceptions and experience. Third, larger cities raise corruption perceptions and experience. Fourth, when the sample is limited to large cities, the corruption-lowering effect of government size loses significance throughout, while firm size loses significance in experience regressions.

Keywords: corruption perception; corruption experience; firm size; government size; city size; emerging economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K42 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ind, nep-isf, nep-law and nep-sbm
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