Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey

By G. Batra. 2003

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Subfields: Finance

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Citations in the corpus

• Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State (2008, background): “This is far below the conventional World Bank 500-person cut-off threshold for large firms (Batra, Kaufmann, and Stone 2003).”
• Why Do Firms Bribe? (2010, methodology): “WBES dataset contains unique firm level survey data, covering more than 10,000 firms in 81 countries in 2000 (Batra et al. 2003) and has been used in the past research (i.e., Uhlenbruck et al. 2006).”
• Consumers as Tax Auditors (2019, background): “29The question in Batra et al. (2003) is: “Recognizing the difficulties many enterprises face in fully complying with taxes and regulations, what percentage of the total sales would you estimate a typical firm in your area of activity keeps off the books: 1 (none); 2(1-10%); 3 (11-20%); 4 (21-30%); ”
• Institutional Barriers and Industry Dynamics (2014, background): “Senior managers in East Asian developing countries spent as much as 15 percent of their time working with government officials to interpret and comply with regulations, while firms in OECD countries spent about 5 percent of their time doing so (Batra, Kaufmann, and Stone, 2003).”
• Understanding corruption and firm responses in cross-national firm-level surveys (2010, unknown): “For examples of the firm-level data-based analyses, see Batra, Kaufmann, and Stone (2003), Clarke and Xu (2004), Escribano and Guasch (2005), Fisman and Gatti (2006), Gray, Hellman, and Ryterman (2004), Hellman et al. (2006), Hellman and Kaufmann (2004), Lee, Oh, and Eden (forthcoming), Svensson…”
• Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: The Role of Natural Resources, Market Size, Government Policy, Institutions and Political Instability (2006, background): “8 See Batra et al. (2003) for a detailed description of the survey. 9 For a detailed description of the survey see Brunetti et al. (1997). 10 See UNCTAD (2000) for a detailed description of the survey.”
• Impacts of Entry by Counterfeiters (2008, background): “This is a more objective relationship proxy than managers’ impressions recorded in World Bank surveys (Batra, Kaufmann, and Stone 2003).”
• Informal sector: The credit market channel (2005, methodology): “To conclude this section and motivate the model, we build on Batra et al. (2003) and use the WBES dataset to present some additional illustrative evidence by running simple bivariate probit estimations (see Greene, 1997) of the joint likelihood that a particular firm belongs to the category in…”
• Measuring Corruption in Infrastructure: Evidence from Transition and Developing Countries (2009, background): “These surveys, which cover 51 developing countries, report on the size of bribes required to secure government contracts and the percentage of managers who rank corruption as a significant impediment to doing business (details of the survey are presented in Batra et al., 2003).”
• The Effect of Corruption on Investment Growth: Evidence from Firms in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Transition Countries (2009, unknown): “Our literature review revealed only two micro studies: Gaviria (2002) and Batra et al. (2003).”