Are corruption and taxation really harmful to growth? Firm level evidence

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fisman, Raymond; Svensson, Jakob
• 署名单位: Stockholm University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.09.009
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 63-75
• 关键词: corruption; taxation; firm growth

摘要

Exploiting a unique data set containing information on the estimated bribe payments of Ugandan firms, we study the relationship between bribery payments, taxes and firm growth. Using industry-location averages to circumvent potential problems of endogeneity and measurement errors, we find that both the rate of taxation and bribery are negatively correlated with firm growth. A one-percentage point increase in the bribery rate is associated with a reduction in firm growth of three percentage points, an effect that is about three times greater than that of taxation. This provides some validation for firm-level theories of corruption which posit that corruption retards the development process to an even greater extent than taxation. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.