The ways in which privatization improves labour and productivity across different sectors of the economy are well known. However, how the country's corruption effects productivity - where corruption is not just an indicator of the misuse of public office, but also a measure of poor governance - remains unclear. To examine this issue, panel data analysis was applied to a set of 62 European telecommunication companies between 2012 and 2019 in order to examine the relationship of corruption and the fraction of private ownership on their productivity … This research hypothesized that higher levels of perceived corruption would present a negative relationship with company's productivity and that a higher percentage of private ownership would have a positive relationship with company's productivity. The results confirmed that the association between corruption and telecommunication companies was negative, while the fraction of private ownership had positive association with productivity.

私有化如何改善经济各个部门的劳动和生产率是众所周知的。但是，该国的腐败如何影响生产力-腐败不仅是滥用职权的一个指标，而且还是治理不善的一种手段-尚不清楚。为了研究这个问题，在2012年至2019年之间，对62家欧洲电信公司进行了面板数据分析，以研究腐败与私有制比例对生产率的关系。与公司生产率之间存在负相关关系，而更高比例的私有制将与公司生产率之间存在正相关关系。