Corruption and cross-border investment by multinational firms |
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Authors: | Shih-Ying Wu |
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Institution: | aNational Tsing Hua University 101, Sec. 2, Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | Motivated by previous studies on the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment, we examine the impact of a distance measure of corruption between host and source countries on cross-border direct investment and find that corruption distance deters cross-border investment. The evidence indicates that corruption distance is not as serious a deterrent of outward direct investment from more-corrupt countries as it is from less-corrupt countries. We conclude that multinational firms with the capacity to engage in bribery can disregard this activity in transparent environments, whereas multinational firms accustomed to operating in transparent environments find it difficult to overcome the administrative complexities in corrupt environments. Journal of Comparative Economics 34 (4) (2006) 839–856. |
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Keywords: | Corruption Foreign direct investment Multinational firm |
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