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      Corruption, Gender and Credit Constraints: Evidence from South Asian SMEs

      Wellalage, Nirosha Hewa; Locke, S; Samujh, H
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       10.1007/s10551-018-3793-6
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      https://hdl.handle.net/10289/15420
      Abstract
      This paper provides analyses of the effect of corruption in South Asia on (1) credit access for small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), and (2) credit constraints faced by female-owned and male-owned SMEs. By addressing potential endogeneity and reverse causality of corruption and credit constraints via instrumental variables, this study reports that corruption has a detrimental effect on credit access. Specifically, corruption increases the probability of SMEs credit constraints by 7.63%. However, gender differences emerge, indicating that bribery is slightly more effective when used by female SME owners. When male-owned SMEs pay bribes, they are on average 0.61% more credit-constrained than their counterparts. For female-owned SMEs paying bribes, they are on average 0.78% more likely to be less credit-constrained compared to female SME owners who do not pay bribes. Overall, bribery is not very effective in achieving the desired outcome and attitudes towards bribery as unethical may be more a question of culture than of gender
      Date
      2019-09-01
      Type
      Journal Article
      Publisher
      SPRINGER
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      This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the Journal of Business Ethics. © 2019 Springer
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