Foreign direct investment and governance quality in Russia

Olga Kuzmina, Natalya Volchkova () and Tatiana Zueva

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, vol. 42, issue 4, 874-891

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of poor governance quality on foreign direct investment in Russia. Using a survey of businesses across forty administrative districts, we find that higher frequency of using illegal payments and higher pressure from regulatory agencies, enforcement authorities, and criminals, negatively affect foreign direct investment. Our identification strategy builds on the exogenous cross-regional variation in worker strikes during 1895–1914, the period before the October Revolution. We find that moving from the average to the top governance quality across Russian regions more than doubles the FDI stock.

Keywords: Foreign direct investment; Quality of governance; Corruption; Russia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 G15 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2014.08.001

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