首页|Local corruption, total factor productivity and firm heterogeneity: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms
Local corruption, total factor productivity and firm heterogeneity: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms
扫码查看
点击上方二维码区域，可以放大扫码查看
原文链接
NSTL
Elsevier
? 2021This paper examines the effects of local corruption on total factor productivity (TFP) of manufacturing firms in China. The empirical analysis is based on a novel corruption dataset we developed on local corruption in China at various disaggregation levels. The empirical results using fixed effects and instrumental variable estimation methods suggest that corruption has an economically and statistically significant negative effect on firm productivity. The estimated economic cost of corruption is found to be high; a one standard deviation increase in corruption reduces firm TFP by around 3.8%. We also find that firm heterogeneity shapes business reactions to corruption in a given geographical location. Increasing corruption hurts firms less when they are publicly owned, export-oriented, more profitable, have faster growth, or operate in industries with lower levels of competition. We also show that firms in cities with higher levels of human capital and higher levels of public spending on education and scientific research are less sensitive to corruption. As for transmission channels, we find that corruption is likely to hurt TFP through its negative effects on private ownership, investment rate, export intensity, innovation, leverage, employment growth, and profit.
Chinese manufacturing firmsFirm and city heterogeneityLocal corruptionTotal factor productivity
Demir F.、Hu C.、Liu J.、Shen H.
展开 >
University of Oklahoma Department of Economics
San Francisco State University Department of Economics
Soka University of America Department of Economics
NSTL
Elsevier
