Corruption and Composition of Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-Level Evidence

By B. Javorcik, Shang-jin Wei. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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The Quality of Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment (2007, background): “4See Smarzynska and Wei (2000) for a firm-level study in transition economies of the impact of corruption on FDI. r 2007 The Authors Journal compilation r 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.”
Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies? (2002, background): “Smarzynska and Wei (2000) find again, although this time with firm-level data, that corruption is negatively related to FDI.”
Ownership, Investment Climate and Firm Performance: Evidence from Chinese Firms (2006, neutral): “Recent empirical research confirms that measures of corruption are significantly and negatively related to foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows (Smarzynska and Wei, 2000; Wei, 2000).”
Private Provision of Infrastructure in Emerging Markets: Do Institutions Matter? (2006, positive): “For example, researchers have found that corruption reduces inward FDI and leads firms to prefer wholly-owned subsidiaries over joint ventures (Smarzynska and Wei, 2000; Uhlenbruck et al., 2004).”
When and where does foreign direct investment generate positive spillovers? A meta-analysis (2009, result): “…FDI, as has been shown in a number of studies using indices similar to ours, namely economic freedom (Bengoa and Robles 2003; Kahai, 2004) and corruption (Smarzynska and Wei, 2000; Voyer and Klaus E. Meyer and Evis Sinani: When and where does foreign direct investment generate positive spillovers?”
Effects of Financial Globalization on Developing Countries: Some Empirical Evidence (2003, background): “…Central and Eastern Europe, a different study suggests that poor quality of local governance, in addition to reducing the quantity of inward FDI, might also reduce the quality of FDI in the sense of discouraging technologically more advanced, foreign wholly owned firms (Smarzynska and Wei (2000)).”