Ukraine used capitalist and non-capitalist economic practices in their coping tactics. Findings – This reveals not only the … limited use of capitalist practices in the everyday coping tactics of households in Ukraine but also how an array of non … up the future of post-Soviet Ukraine to other possible trajectories than simply some variety of capitalism …

in Ukraine that unravels the heterogeneous forms of work in the informal economy, the finding is that although each and …

data on 165 barter deals in Ukraine in 1997. The evidence does not support the notion that soft budget constraints, lack of … with the incidence of barter in Ukraine. We then explore an alternative explanation of barter as a mechanism to address … particular pitfalls of expansionary monetary policy in barter economies such as Ukraine and Russia …

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …

In view of the missing consensus on how corruption relates to firm innovation, this paper empirically studies the … relationship between petty corruption and product, process, marketing and organizational innovations in the post-Soviet region …

In this paper we explore relationships between corruption perceptions and such characteristics as the size of shadow … countries. It is shown that irrespective of whether the economy is developed or transitional, negative dependence of corruption … the shadow economy passes 45%, the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index ceases to respond to growth of …

is applied through a survey of 600 households in Ukraine. The outcome is to reveal that just as multifarious economic …

involving face-to-face interviews with 298 informal entrepreneurs in Ukraine, the finding is that they are not all commercially …

emergent representation. Reporting a study of the informal economy in Ukraine conducted in 2005/06, a diverse array of informal …

This working paper contains supplementary material to the paper Communism or Communists? Soviet Legacies and Corruption … the results described in the published paper. -- corruption ; transition economies ; path dependence ; Soviet legacies …