Political Regimes and Firms' Decisions to Pay Bribes: Theory and Evidence from Firm-level Surveys
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Corruption; Autocracy; Policy implementation times; World Bank Enterprise Surveys;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H22 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Incidence
- H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
- O25 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Industrial Policy
- O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2023-06-12 (Development)
- NEP-PBE-2023-06-12 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2023-06-12 (Positive Political Economics)
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