Replication Data for: Predictable Corruption and Firm Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment and Survey of Cambodian Entrepreneurs
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Article and Replication Materials (Data and Do file)This paper utilizes a unique dataset of 500 firms in ten Cambodian provinces anda natural experiment to test a long-held convention in political economy that thepredictability of a corruption is at least as important for firm investment decisionsas the amount of bribes a firm must pay, provided the bribes are not prohibitivelyexpensive. Our results suggest that this hypothesis is correct. Firms exposed toa shock to their bribe schedules by a change in governor invest significantly lessin subsequent periods, as they wait for new information about their new chiefexecutive. Furthermore, the amount of corruption (both measured by survey dataand proxied by the number of commercial sex workers) is significantly lower inprovinces with new governors. Our findings are robus' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["predictable corruption, investment, Cambodia, growth"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Article and Replication Materials (Data and Do file)This paper utilizes a unique dataset of 500 firms in ten Cambodian provinces anda natural experiment to test a long-held convention in political economy that thepredictability of a corruption is at least as important for firm investment decisionsas the amount of bribes a firm must pay, provided the bribes are not prohibitivelyexpensive. Our results suggest that this hypothesis is correct. Firms exposed toa shock to their bribe schedules by a change in governor invest significantly lessin subsequent periods, as they wait for new information about their new chiefexecutive. Furthermore, the amount of corruption (both measured by survey dataand proxied by the number of commercial sex workers) is significantly lower inprovinces with new governors. Our findings are robus' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
Article and Replication Materials (Data and Do file)This paper utilizes a unique dataset of 500 firms in ten Cambodian provinces anda natural experiment to test a long-held convention in political economy that thepredictability of a corruption is at least as important for firm investment decisionsas the amount of bribes a firm must pay, provided the bribes are not prohibitivelyexpensive. Our results suggest that this hypothesis is correct. Firms exposed toa shock to their bribe schedules by a change in governor invest significantly lessin subsequent periods, as they wait for new information about their new chiefexecutive. Furthermore, the amount of corruption (both measured by survey dataand proxied by the number of commercial sex workers) is significantly lower inprovinces with new governors. Our findings are robus
predictable corruption, investment, Cambodia, growth