Communist party membership and bribe paying in transitional economies

Timothy Hinks and Artjoms Ivlevs ()

Working Papers from Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol

Abstract: Using data on 30 post-socialist countries this paper provides evidence that individuals with some association with the Communist Party before 1991 are more likely to bribe twenty years after the collapse of socialism and that inherited norms of bribery from Communist Party members explains this finding.

Keywords: Communist party membership; social norms; institutional; corruption; transition economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-01-01
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