Connections and Dollars: Political Connections, Foreign Direct Investment and Corruption

• In Event: Politically-Connected Firms in the Developing World

Brief Overview

I argue that corruption does not deter investment when investors are able to form political connections with government officials. To overcome this hurdle, I conduct a field experiment using a sample of 20,000 US firms with operations abroad.

Author

• Andrey Tomashevskiy, Rutgers University