Corruption level and uncertainty, FDI and domestic investment

Hanousek, Jan, Shamshur, Anastasiya, Svejnar, Jan and Tresl, Jiri (2021) Corruption level and uncertainty, FDI and domestic investment. Journal of International Business Studies, 52 (9). pp. 1750-1774. ISSN 0047-2506

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Abstract

Based on real options theory and institutional factors, we develop a theoretical framework for investment in the presence of corruption and use a sample of private firms in 13 European countries over 2001–2013 to carry out the first large-scale analysis of the impact of the level of corruption and uncertainty about corruption on post-entry investment of MNE subsidiaries. We employ several waves of managerial surveys (the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey; BEEPS) to construct local- rather than merely country-level measures of corruption level and uncertainty. In combination with a large European firm-level database (Amadeus), we show that corruption uncertainty and corruption level do not have an effect on the investment of MNE subsidiaries. We next carry out the analysis on the sample of domestic firms and find a negative investment effect that is driven primarily by corruption uncertainty rather than corruption level. We also show that investment of domestic firms that are similar (matched) to MNE subsidiaries is unaffected directly by corruption, but is affected by uncertainties related to finances and judiciary. Our results are robust to controlling for various types of uncertainty, and they provide new insights into the effects of corruption on investment.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Academy of International Business.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	central and eastern europe,corruption,foreign direct investment (fdi),multinational enterprises (mnes),real option theory,uncertainty,business and international management,general business,management and accounting,economics and econometrics,general social sciences,strategy and management,management of technology and innovation ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1403
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
Related URLs:	https://www.scopus.com/pages/publication... https://kar.kent.ac.uk/88585/
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	29 Apr 2026 11:47
Last Modified:	02 May 2026 12:55
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102832
DOI:	10.1057/s41267-021-00447-w

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