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Initial conditions and privatization as causes of post-communist corruption

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dc.abstract.enThis article investigates the economic determinants of corruption in post-communist countries. We conduct an empirical verification of two research hypotheses using EBRD and World Bank data on 27 post-communist economies over the 1996–2014 period. The first hypothesis suggests that corruption is rooted in the communist past, when these countries embraced communist institutions, social norms, as well as low-development structural factors broadly defined as initial conditions. The second hypothesis is that the flawed transition process led corruption to increase because politics and business were never separated. The elites pushed measures that preserved their status while obstructing reform policies that might endanger their interests. Our empirical results demonstrate that both hypotheses are valid to a limited extent, while revealing a more complex view of the reforms and initial conditions. Corruption seems to be related to the natural resource curse, to the lack of small-scale privatisation and to a long history of underdevelopment that could have preceded communism.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorCieślik, Andrzej
dc.contributor.authorGoczek, Łukasz
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T04:14:51Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T04:14:51Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.identifier.issn1463-1377
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/109323
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2017.1361693
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationeconomics and finance
dc.relation.ispartofPost-Communist Economies
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dc.titleInitial conditions and privatization as causes of post-communist corruption
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication