Technological innovation is critical to a country's economic development and a firm's long-
term success. This article reviews the recent literature that links institutions and innovation …

This article uses bibliographic mapping to identify the fifty most influential articles in the Tier
1 Finance journals since their inception, and to visualize the conceptual interrelations …

Corporate innovation is an increasingly important topic that has attracted great attention from
academic researchers in financial economics in recent years. Although the top three finance …

This paper explores the relationship between firm-level innovation and external finance for
small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Our sample consists of 13,430 firms from Eastern …

Chinese share prices rose sharply on the Politburo's Dec. 4th, 2012, announcement of its
Eight-point Regulation, an uncharacteristically detailed and concrete Party policy, initiating …

Using a sample of firms from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for the period 2006–2016 in
emerging and developing countries, we find that corruption has a negative impact on the …

Tax evasion is a widespread phenomenon across the globe and even an important factor in
the ongoing sovereign debt crisis. We show that firms in countries with better credit …

This paper establishes the presence of political corruption in court and identifies a novel
channel—interfering with court decisions—through which local corrupt politicians provide …

We examine how local political corruption affects firm innovation in the United States. We
find that firms located in highly corrupt areas are less innovative as measured by their …

Despite the consensus on the negative country-level implications of corruption, its
consequences for firms are less understood. This study examines the effect of bribery on the …