Corrupção e Crescimento: os impactos da corrupção ponderados pelos diferentes graus de eficiência entre as firmas

This study examined the impact of corruption on growth of firms with different levels of efficiency. The study was made from the non-parametric efficiency scores technique, was adjusted a linear regression model interacting the different scores with a corruption index. The results have shown that corruption has negative impacts on low-performing firms, unlike high-performing firms. In this sense, the position of an efficient firm as the quantile frontier affects significantly the consequences of corruption, suggesting a heterogeneous effect that is not accurately captured by traditional techniques. These results corroborate scientific studies carried out by Batra, Kaufmann and Stone (2003), Wang and You (2012) and Jiang and Nie (2014).