Whether corruption sands or greases the wheels of foreign direct investment: a meta-regression analysis
International Review of Economics, cilt.70, sa.4, ss.477-501, 2023 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 70 Sayı: 4
- Basım Tarihi: 2023
- Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s12232-023-00428-5
- Dergi Adı: International Review of Economics
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, ABI/INFORM, EconLit
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.477-501
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Corruption, FDI, Governance, MRA, PEESE
- Kırklareli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
As a deficient form of governance, corruption hinders FDI by increasing transaction costs and uncertainty. However, the heterogeneity in findings reported from primary studies has made testing competing hypotheses about the role of corruption on FDI difficult. The paper aims to identify and, if any, measure the authentic empirical effect of corruption on FDI by conducting a meta-regression analysis based upon 616 estimation results from 81 studies. The result suggests a negative authentic empirical effect of corruption on FDI supporting the hypothesis of corruption sands the wheels of foreign direct investment. The marginal effect of corruption changes in direction and magnitude due to the type of FDI (stocks or flows), the corruption index, the estimation technique, the unit, and the time period, used in the primary studies.