caa a22 4500 606168575 CHVBK 20210128100707.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11127-015-0292-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11127-015-0292-5 Corruption and entrepreneurship: evidence from Brazilian municipalities [Elektronische Daten] [Jamie Bologna, Amanda Ross] We estimate the effect of corruption on business activity in Brazilian municipalities. We employ a new measure of corruption based on data from random audits of municipal governments. Our results suggest that higher levels of corruption are generally associated with reductions in the number of business establishments. Furthermore, we find that these effects become larger over time, suggesting that corruption is particularly detrimental over the long-run. However, we also find that the effect of corruption on business activity can be insignificant or even positive conditional on institutional quality being very poor. This is consistent with the "grease the wheels” hypothesis, which argues that corruption provides entrepreneurs with means to avoid burdensome regulations and taxes. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Entrepreneurship nationallicence Corruption nationallicence Institutions nationallicence Bologna Jamie Department of Economics, West Virginia University, 26506, Morgantown, WV, USA aut Ross Amanda Department of Economics, West Virginia University, 26506, Morgantown, WV, USA aut Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 165/1-2(2015-10-01), 59-77 0048-5829 165:1-2<59 2015 165 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0292-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0292-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bologna Jamie Department of Economics, West Virginia University, 26506, Morgantown, WV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ross Amanda Department of Economics, West Virginia University, 26506, Morgantown, WV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 165/1-2(2015-10-01), 59-77 0048-5829 165:1-2<59 2015 165 11127