This paper uses survey data on the corruption experience (rather than corruption perceptions) of firms located in different types of cities in more than one hundred countries to analyze the impact of firms’ strategic location on corruption. In a corrupt economy, location might influence the ability of bureaucrats/politicians and firms to extract and dodge rents. Placing the analysis in the literature on determinants of corruption, our results reveal that the corruption experiences of firms located in nations’ capital cities are qualitatively different from firms located elsewhere: they do not experience greater corruption, while firms in large cities and main business cities do. However, when manufacturing and service firms are considered separately, their corruption experience and perceptions differ.

本文使用关于腐败经历的调查数据（而不是腐败观念) 的公司位于一百多个国家不同类型的城市，以分析公司战略位置对腐败的影响。在腐败经济中，位置可能会影响官僚/政治家和公司提取和逃避租金的能力。通过对腐败决定因素的文献进行分析，我们的结果表明，位于国家首都城市的公司的腐败经历与位于其他地方的公司在性质上不同：它们没有经历更大的腐败，而大城市和主要商业城市的公司的腐败经历做。然而，当制造业和服务业企业分开考虑时，他们的腐败经历和认知是不同的。