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Price Adjustment under the Table
Levy, Daniel - In: Handbook of Frauds, Scams, and Swindles: Failures of …, (pp. 17-34). 2009
Based on a first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on corrupt price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime in the USSR. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971...
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Price adjustment under the Table: Evidence on Efficiency-Enhancing Corruption
Levy, Daniel - In: European Journal of Political Economy 23 (2007) 2, pp. 423-447
prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
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The determinants of asset stripping: theory and evidence from the transition economies
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
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The Relationship between Corruption and the Shadow Economy in Ukraine and Other Central and Eastern European Countries
Cherviakova, Valentyna; Cherviakova, Tetiana - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 7-30
The article investigates the causes, essence, and peculiarities of corruption and the shadow economy, as well as how … between levels of corruption and the shadow economy in all Central and Eastern European countries. However, the degree to … which corruption impacts the variation in the levels of the shadow economy differs significantly in countries across the …
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Communism or communists? Soviet legacies and corruption in transition economies
Libman, Alexander; Obydenkova, Anastassia - 2013
This working paper contains supplementary material to the paper Communism or Communists? Soviet Legacies and Corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311613
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Structural Change in the Transition Economies, 1989 to 1999
Landesmann, Michael - 2000
This report gives an overview of patterns of structural change in Central and Eastern European economies over the decade 1989-1999. The analysis in this paper is restricted to a sub-sample of transition economies, namely the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) - with the exception of...
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Does religiosity explain economic outcomes?
Popova, Olga - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Most religions in transition economies were marginalized by their former communist regimes. Today, some of these countries are experiencing a revival of religiosity, while others are prone to secularization. Religious norms affect individual decision making with respect to human capital...
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Determinants of economic growth in BRIC countries
Goel, Rajjev K.; Korhonen, Iikka - 2011
We study economic growth in four emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). Questions addressed are: (a) How do medium term growth determinants differ from short term determinants? (b) What are differences between growth effects of aggregate versus disaggregated exports? And...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326923
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Clans, cliques, and captured states: Rethinking transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
Wedel, Janine R. - 2001
development of many aspects of corruption, organized crime, markets, and the state. The lack of attention to informal systems can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279003
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The Rule of Law: Measurement and Deep Roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
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