How Firms and Bureaucrats Shape the Business Environment in Transition Economies
Idioma: Inglés Series Recursos Humanos en Salud ; 6Washington D. C. Banco Mundial 2000Washington D. C. World Bank Institute, Governance, Regulation and Finance 2000Washington D. C. European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 2000Descripción: 62 páginasTema(s): Recursos en línea:Introduction -- The Survey Instrument -- Implementation and Methodology -- Characteristics of Responding Firms -- The Investment Climate: The Micro- and Macro Dimensions of Governance -- Selected Results by Firm Characteristics
Recent studies have focussed on the characteristics and policies of the state to explain the extent and causes of corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and national governance have been unexplored. This paper summarises the results of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) across 20 transition economies, providing an assessment of governance and corruption from the perspective of firms. The BEEPS is part of the global World Business Environment Survey being carried out by the World Bank. The survey design permits an in-depth empirical analysis of governance and corruption, unbundling governance into its component dimensions. This allows a more detailed quantitative assessment of corruption, a more nuanced understanding of the causes of the problem and as a result a stronger foundation for policy advice. Particular attention is paid to state capture by parts of the corporate sector (i. e. the propensity of firms to shape the underlying rules of the game including purchase of legislation and court decisions). The survey also provides measures of other dimensions of grand corruption, such as that related to public procurement. Typically, cross-country surveys suffer from a potential bias if firms have a tendency to systematically over- or under-estimate the extent of problems in their own country. We implement a simple method for evaluating the extent of this country perception bias and find little evidence pointing to such bias in the BEEPS.
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