corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease …Using enterprise data for the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, this study examines the effects of … the day-to-day operation of firms. The effects of this “bribe tax” on productivity are compared to the consequences of red …

financial markets; and sharing of best practices in government practice and create regional institutions and reducing corruption. …

This paper raises the question of the relationship between innovation and productivity conditional to ICT use and R … these innovation outputs conditional to ICT use and R&D lead to a higher level of labour productivity. In this adaptation of … CDM model extended with ICT use, we consider a four equations model that relates labour productivity to innovation outputs …

), two accession countries (Croatia and Turkey) and two CIS countries (Russia and Ukraine). The paper first studies the basic … attenuation, implying that any increase in the open sector's productivity feeds onto changes in the relative price of non …