Reliable supply chains are crucial to the competitiveness, survival and profitability of businesses. While various aspects of supply chain logistics have been studied, their impacts on corrupt activity have not been fully understood. This paper examines the impact of the different stages of supply chain logistics on corruption. Besides adding insights into channels of potential corruption or rent-seeking, the research identifies potential stages of bureaucratic holdups related to the supply chain and can prove useful in the formulation of a more effective corruption-control policy. We use data for about 150 nations over the period 2000–2018 and the econometric methodology controls for potential reverse feedback from corruption to logistics. Our results show that an improvement in overall logistics performance reduces cross-country corruption, with individual dimensions of logistics having a differential corruption-reducing impact. The main policy implication is that governmental efforts to reduce supply chain bottlenecks will have positive spillovers in terms of reduced corruption.

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识别车轮中的腐败齿轮：供应链物流和跨国腐败的维度

可靠的供应链对企业的竞争力、生存和盈利能力至关重要。虽然已经研究了供应链物流的各个方面，但它们对腐败活动的影响尚未完全了解。本文研究了供应链物流不同阶段对腐败的影响。除了增加对潜在腐败或寻租渠道的洞察之外，该研究还确定了与供应链相关的官僚阻碍的潜在阶段，并且可以证明有助于制定更有效的腐败控制政策。我们使用了 2000-2018 年期间约 150 个国家的数据，计量经济学方法控制了从腐败到物流的潜在反向反馈。我们的研究结果表明，整体物流绩效的改善可以减少跨国腐败，物流的各个维度具有不同的减少腐败的影响。主要的政策含义是，政府减少供应链瓶颈的努力将在减少腐败方面产生积极的溢出效应。