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Are Foreign Firms Privileged By Their Host Governments? Evidence From The 2000 World Business Environment Survey

Using the data from World Business Environment Survey (WBES) on over 10,000 firms across eighty one countries, this paper finds preliminary evidence that foreign firms enjoy significant regulatory advantages - as perceived by the firms themselves - over domestic firms. The findings on regulatory advantages of foreign firms hold with a variety of alternative measures of regulations and with or without firm- and country-level attributes and industry and country controls. There is also evidence that foreign firms' regulatory advantages are especially substantial vis-a-vis the politically weak domestic firms. Furthermore, the regulatory advantages of foreign firms appear stronger in corrupt countries than in non-corrupt countries.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/18075
Date03 June 2005
CreatorsHuang, Yasheng
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeWorking Paper
Format575782 bytes, application/pdf
RelationMIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper;4538-04

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