Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam

This article tests whether firm growth reduces corruption, using data from over 10,000 Vietnamese firms. We employ instrumental variables based on growth in a firm's industry in other provinces within Vietnam and in China. We find that firm growth reduces bribes as a share of revenues. We propo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bai, Jie, Jayachandran, Seema, Malesky, Edmund J., Olken, Benjamin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114047
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631