Ukraine used capitalist and non-capitalist economic practices in their coping tactics. Findings – This reveals not only the … limited use of capitalist practices in the everyday coping tactics of households in Ukraine but also how an array of non … up the future of post-Soviet Ukraine to other possible trajectories than simply some variety of capitalism …

Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse bureaucratic corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less … and Ukraine than in Poland, Slovakia and Romania. A comparison of cross-country averages shows that managers in Russia and … corruption is significantly associated with hiding output …

data on 165 barter deals in Ukraine in 1997. The evidence does not support the notion that soft budget constraints, lack of … with the incidence of barter in Ukraine. We then explore an alternative explanation of barter as a mechanism to address … particular pitfalls of expansionary monetary policy in barter economies such as Ukraine and Russia …

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …

While Ukraine was bestowed market economy status by the European Union in 2005 its labour market still endures many … obtaining work within Ukraine's labour market and the problems they face once they have secured employment. Rather than seeing … broader resonance outside of the Ukrainian case study as the discussion of work- place corruption highlights how the issue is …

In this paper we explore relationships between corruption perceptions and such characteristics as the size of shadow … countries. It is shown that irrespective of whether the economy is developed or transitional, negative dependence of corruption … the shadow economy passes 45%, the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index ceases to respond to growth of …

commitment. The article tests this axiom in the crucial case of the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. I show that despite the …

is applied through a survey of 600 households in Ukraine. The outcome is to reveal that just as multifarious economic …

involving face-to-face interviews with 298 informal entrepreneurs in Ukraine, the finding is that they are not all commercially …