Communism or communists? Soviet legacies and corruption in transition economies

Alexander Libman and Anastassia Obydenkova

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 119, issue 1, 101-103

Abstract: The paper investigates the influence of path dependence on corruption in Russian regions. We show that even twenty years after the collapse of the USSR, regions with a higher share of Communist Party members in the 1970s have substantially higher corruption.

Keywords: Corruption; Transition economies; Path dependence; Soviet legacies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 K42 P26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.02.003

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