Abstract
This study examined the impact of corruption on growth of firms with different levels of efficiency. The study was made from the non-parametric efficiency scores technique, was adjusted a linear regression model interacting the different scores with a corruption index. The results have shown that corruption has negative impacts on low-performing firms, unlike high-performing firms. In this sense, the position of an efficient firm as the quantile frontier affects significantly the consequences of corruption, suggesting a heterogeneous effect that is not accurately captured by traditional techniques. These results corroborate scientific studies carried out by Batra, Kaufmann and Stone (2003)BATRA, G., KAUFMANN, D., & STONE, A. Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2003., Wang and You (2012)WANG, Y., & YOU, J. Corruption and firm growth: Evidence from China. China Economic Review, 23, 415-433, 2012. and Jiang and Nie (2014)JIANG, T., & NIE, H. The stained China miracle: Corruption, regulation, and firm performance. Economics Letters, 123, 366-369, 2014..