Economic Growth and Crime against Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Developing Economies

Islam, Asif

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ABORTION;    ACCOUNTING;    ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION;    BIG CITIES;    BUREAUCRACY;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-6768
RP-ID  :  WPS6768

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Several studies have explored therelationship between economy-level crime rates orindividual-level crime and economic growth. However, fewstudies have examined the relationship between economicgrowth and crime against firms. This study uses data forabout 12,000 firms in 27 developing countries and finds thateconomic growth is negatively associated with crime. Thisrelationship is stronger for small and medium firms thanlarge firms. The study also explores several economy-widefactors and their influence on the growth-crime relationshipfor small and medium enterprises. The results are robust tovarious sensitivity checks.