Opportunism, corruption and the multinational firm's mode of entry |
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Authors: | Stéphane Straub |
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Institution: | Department of Economics, University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Building, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH89JY, UK |
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Abstract: | The paper develops a theoretical approach to the boundaries of the multi-national firm in the context of institutional constraints in host countries, focusing especially on corruption. The model incorporates two types of corruption: petty bureaucratic corruption and high-level political corruption. The model predicts that-in the absence of corruption-multinational firms will prefer FDI (internal expansion with strong control rights) to debt (arm's length expansion with loose control rights), the weaker the host country's ability to commit. However, both types of corruption shift the trade-off marginally toward debt. Cross-country panel empirical evidence supports these conclusions. Corruption has a second order marginal effect and matters mostly through its interaction with political risk. |
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Keywords: | FDI Debt Multinational firms Capital flows Expropriation Corruption |
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