| dc.description.abstract | As corruption gains public attention, there is an increased acknowledgement of its impact on
business. Circumstances around a corrupt may act differ, but thesis seeks to understand some
common factors. Corruption might be embedded in a country or occur sporadically. One of
the many ways a business can participate in corrupt acts, willingly or reluctantly, is via bribery
of public officials. This thesis seeks to examine corruption and bribery in relation to the
government from the firm’s perspective, using firm-level data from Eastern Europe and
Central Asia.
We use the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey to focus on the way
corruption affects businesses and when they are more likely to encounter it. This thesis adds
several aspects to current corruption research using BEEPS. Given a possibly changing
corruption environment, this thesis uses numbers from both 2009 and 2013; it also separates
bribery from corruption, and compares the two.
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Surprisingly, firm characteristics, except firm size, do not affect the probability that a firm
pays a bribe. However, firms are more likely to bribe when faced with increasingly
challenging financial constraints due to corruption, access to finance, land access, courts and
tax administration, business licensing, practices of informal competitors. | nb_NO |
