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Laws for Sale: Evidence from Russia
American Law and Economics Review. 2014. No. 7. P. 284-318.
Yakovlev E., Zhuravskaya E., Guriev S.
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Research target:
Economics and Management
Language:
English
Keywords: corruption
Kolokoltsov V., Mathematics 2021 Vol. 9 No. 14 Article 1619
Games of inspection and corruption are well developed in the game-theoretic literature. However, there are only a few publications that approach these problems from the evolutionary point of view. In previous papers of this author, a generalization of the replicator dynamics of the evolutionary game theory was suggested for inspection modeling, namely the pressure and ...
Added: October 29, 2021
Levina I. A., Journal of Comparative Economics 2020 Vol. 48 No. 4 P. 933-950
The paper studies evidence from Russian firms to explore whether the decentralization of firms
can be successful under weak institutions. The paper distinguishes between two strategies for
decentralization of firms in an environment with weak institutions: decentralization of decisionmaking
authority to professionals hired through open competition (real decentralization) and
decentralization to people hired through connections (cautious decentralization). The paper ...
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Pain E. A., Public Administration Issues 2015 No. 5 P. 34-49
The article discusses the problem of the applicability of modern public administration theories and practices outside liberal democracies. The theory and practice are not universal; they do not apply to the conditions of the most numerous type of state in the world, namely nation-states, with «hybrid» political regimes and a mixed system of economic, social ...
Added: March 16, 2016
Ostrovnaya M., Elena Podkolzina, Journal of Competition Law & Economics 2015 Vol. 11 No. 2 P. 331-352
Why do people violate the law? The Hobbesian outlook would be that people violate the law in the absence of appropriate punishment. John Stuart Mill would have attributed the violation to the lack of incentives to behave legally. In this paper, we combine these two factors to examine the effect of antitrust regulation on price ...
Added: October 21, 2014
Yakovlev A. A., Tkachenko A., Rodionova Y., Вопросы экономики 2018 № 10 С. 90-105
The experience of the last decade has demonstrated that the state policy on the extension of competitive procedures in public procurement has been challenged by the attempts of customers and suppliers to restrict competition. The mass survey of customers and suppliers carried out by the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies in 2017 showed that ...
Added: October 10, 2018
Barsukova S., Denisova-Schmidt E., Ledeneva A., Osteuropa 2018 Vol. 68 No. 8-9 P. 25-40
The fight against corruption enjoys worldwide attention. But how do you measure corruption? Many social scientists rely on quantitative methods. But these have a weakness. They are blind to the particular social and local context in which people use informal practices. Also, not every informal action is corruption. In order to be able to precisely ...
Added: December 26, 2018
Kravtsova M., Oshchepkov A. Y., Welzel C., Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2017 Vol. 48 No. 2 P. 225-242
Using World Values Survey data from several dozen countries around the world, this article analyzes the relationship between postmaterialist values and bribery (dis)approval in a multilevel framework. We find that people, who place stronger emphasis on postmaterialist values, tend to justify bribery more. However, the “ecological” effect of postmaterialism operates in the exactly opposite direction: ...
Added: November 16, 2016
Levin M. I., Matrosova K. A., Shilova N., Финансы и бизнес 2014 № 4 С. 4-8
The first part of the article contains a thorough review of the existing literature on possible links between innovative development of national economy and corruption. The second part of the article is a research on such links in Russia. Having analyzed the existing regional data, we have tested several hypothesis, among them: (1) higher economic ...
Added: November 13, 2014
Fattakhov T., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2015 № 128 С. 66-95
Abstract. Over more than ten years, Russia has been at the top of the list of the OECD countries by traffic-related death rate per 1000 residents. The death rate in Russia is five- to six-fold greater than in most of the developed countries, given that the number of cars per 1000 residents is much lower. ...
Added: September 18, 2015
Badalyan M. R., Финансы и бизнес 2017 No. 1 P. 114-123
Corruption in Armenia, as a rule, is viewed in parallel with Russian corruption. Nevertheless, the combination of social, cultural and political factors that determine corruption in Armenia differ markedly. The paper examines the main problems that induced the restoration of corruption and its further transformation into the norm of life. The results of the research ...
Added: September 20, 2017
Levin M. I., Matrosova K. A., Вопросы экономики 2014 № 4 С. 99-122
The paper considers monitoring of environmental change as the central element of environmental regulation. Monitoring, as each kind of principal-agent relations, easily gives rise to corruptive behavior. In the paper we analyze economic models of environmental monitoring with high costs, incomplete information and corruption. These models should be the elements of environmental economics and are ...
Added: March 17, 2015
Kravtsova M., Terra Economicus 2014 Т. 12 № 1 С. 25-31
In our work, we distinguish two forms of corruption, market corruption and network corruption. Under the market corruption we understand the use of public office for personal gain, when every firm or individual who pays a bribe receives public services. Under the network corruption we understand the use of public office for personal gain, when ...
Added: February 15, 2017
Guerra A., Zhuravleva T., Public Choice 2022 Vol. 191 No. 1 P. 173-192
We use experimental data to explore the conditions under which males and females may differ in their tendency to act corruptly and their tolerance of corruption. We ask if males and females respond differently to the tradeoff between the benefits accrued by corrupt actors versus the negative externality imposed on other people by corruption. Our findings reveal ...
Added: September 8, 2022
Аистов А. В., Рассадовская А. В., Вестник Воронежского государственного университета. Серия: Экономика и управление 2014 № 2 С. 9-18
The research focuses on empirical estimates of what Russians think about everyday corruption in Russia. We use LITS, WVS and RLMS-HSE data sets. It was discovered concave dependence of corruption expectations on age and positive on income. Level of education and town habitation increase confidence in necessity of bribes. Retrospective questions confirm that corruption did ...
Added: October 7, 2014
Podkolzina E., 86974107, / Высшая школа экономики. Series PA "Public Administration". 2011. No. 01.
The main goal of public procurement reform in Russia, initiated in 2005, was to prevent corrupt deals between suppliers and procurers. That is why the public procurement law favors formal mechanisms to govern most of the stages of procurement: the procurer is not allowed to take into account the reputation of the supplier when he ...
Added: August 27, 2012
fgh g., Libman A., Post-Soviet Affairs 2015 Vol. 31 No. 4 P. 304-338
Corruption is widespread throughout the former Communist states, and it is particularly severe and entrenched in Russia. Despite the fact that Russia's contemporary corruption has recently become a subject of analysis, there is, however, no study that has addressed the role of the Communist legacy in the development of various aspects of corruption. This paper ...
Added: September 3, 2015
Levin M. I., Сатаров Г. А., Вопросы экономики 2014 № 1 С. 61-77
The Russian economy is in transition period “from plan to market”, which is characterized by immature institutions and expansion of rentseeking behavior. In this article, the authors consider rent as a possible excess return above the minimum income needed to encourage an agent to implement the actions specified by the principal. In this paper the ...
Added: March 17, 2015
Detkova P., Tkachenko A., Yakovlev A. A., Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2021 Vol. 189 P. 217-233
A high level of corruption usually constrains economic development in emerging countries. However, anti-corruption campaigns often fail because the relevant policies need to be implemented by existing corrupt governments. This article studies the extent of bureaucrats’ heterogeneity in attitude to the problem of corruption. Due to the sensitivity of direct questions on corruption, we conduct ...
Added: July 16, 2021
Fedorovykh D., Финансы и бизнес 2014 № 2 С. 4-13
The idea of ligalization of bribe giving for certain types of bribes was expressed by K. Basu in 2011 and got a name Basu proposal. In this paper we discuss effects that can be caused by the direct implementation of this proposal. Our game-theoretic model shows that while legalisation of certain bribe-giving occurances can lead ...
Added: June 27, 2014
Detkova P., Podkolzina E., Tkachenko A., International Journal of Public Administration 2018 P. 414-434
This paper estimates the impact of corruption on the incentives of procurers to maintain honest competition in tenders. Customers, who procure for themselves, and Agencies, who procure for the customers in their region are considered. Basing on a large dataset of open auctions conducted by Russian regional-level authorities in 2011, the analysis shows that in ...
Added: January 18, 2018
Tatarko A., Mironova A. A., Social Sciences 2016
Objective. This article analyses the association between personal values and the acceptability of corruption in Russia, France, Germany, and Latvia. Several studies show that cultural values can be related to the level of corruption in the countries at the societal level. We look at the following two questions: (1) Can universal personal values influence the ...
Added: September 12, 2016
Fedorovykh D., Финансы и бизнес 2013 № 4 С. 31-50
Corrupt buyers and sellers of government services often face difficulties finding each other. Their activity is illegal, so one cannot just ask: "will you take my bribe?" or "how much will you give me if I accelerate this bureaucratic procedure?" Professional intermediaries help reveal this information. Sometimes intermediaries perform some legal functions too (e. g. ...
Added: October 25, 2013
Schram A., Zhuravleva T., Zheng J. D., Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2022 No. 193 P. 497-518
For successful anti-corruption policies, it is crucial to understand the basic social contract governing the interaction between people. Social norms are a key element of the social contract, but may vary across cultures. We investigate how descriptive social norms af- fect the development of corruption over time. In a laboratory experiment implemented in the Netherlands, ...
Added: March 14, 2022
Kravtsova M., Oshchepkov A. Y., Crime, Law and Social Change 2023
In this paper, we study a division between market corruption—impersonal bribery— and network corruption that operates through social connections. We provide a thorough theoretical discussion of this division, compare it with other categorizations of corruption, and also demonstrate diferences between market and network corruption existing in practice. Using data from the World Economic Forum in ...
Added: July 13, 2023