Does Foreign Direct Investment Decrease Corruption

By F. Larraín, José Tavares. 2004

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This paper assesses the effect of openness on corruption, using foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows as a measure of openness, after trade intensity is accounted for. We use a broad cross section of countries over the period 1970 to 1994 and address th

Subfields: Demography, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Institutional Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (2007, unknown): “Its country coverage, which focuses on developing countries, is very helpful 6 Larrain and Tavares (2004) study the impact of FDI on the extent of corruption.”
• The interaction effect of economic freedom and democracy on corruption: A panel cross-country analysis (2009, background): “Some studies have used trade openness and foreign direct investment to explain the effectiveness of economic openness in reducing corruption (see Larrain and Tavares, 2004).”