This working paper contains supplementary material to the paper Communism or Communists? Soviet Legacies and Corruption …

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 …

This working paper contains supplementary material to the paper Communism or Communists? Soviet Legacies and Corruption …

The paper investigates the influence of path dependence on corruption in Russian regions. We show that even twenty … higher corruption. …

Corruption is a significant factor which determines the quality of the “doing business” environment at large. The aim …) does gender matter in corrupt behavior and (2) can corruption be an explanatory factor for gender gaps in firm growth … the impact of corruption on employment growth, we do find a general negative impact of administrative corruption …

The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in informal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse bureaucratic corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less … corruption is significantly associated with hiding output …

about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political … and economic crises to assess what we can learn from the long-term effects of past crises on corruption. We hypothesize … corruption. We test our hypotheses using panel data for over 100 countries during the years 1800- 2020. The results suggest …

Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual … enforcement to combat corruption by increasing enforcement employment is ineffective, rather comprehensive improvements in …