Ukraine: The Cost of Weak Institutions

Tiffin, Andrew

doi:10.5089/9781451864274.001

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“…Many scholars of tbe region bave documented tbe weakness of Ukrainian institutions tbat are supposed to generate pressures for transparency by increasing the chances of detection and punishment of deviant bureaucrats and their clients (Sidenko and Kuziakiv 2003;Tiffin 2006;Smallbone et al 2010).…”

Section: Embeddedness: How Does Context Shape Corruption?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Anti-Corruptionism: Sociological Imagination and Comparative Study of Corruption

Zaloznaya

2013

Comp Sociol

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This article outlines and illustrates a theoretical blueprint for comparative sociology of corruption. The author argues that existing cross-national studies of corruption, influenced by the global political movement for transparency, undermine fundamental sociological principles. At the same time, truly sociological studies of corruption are unfavorable to comparisons due to their emphasis on the singularity of exchange economies in non-Western societies. The author argues that there are three analytical foci that can help researchers resolve the tension between 'insensitive' large-N and 'overly-sensitive' small-N studies of corruption: the principle of social embeddedness, multiplicity of rationality, and localized pov/et implications. A comparative study of university corruption in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Belarus is used to illustrate the strengths of the proposed analytical framework.Currently, comparative study of corruption does not exist outside the politicized paradigm of international relations. Corruptology is permeated with inaccurate and profoundly non-sociological assumptions, adopted from anti-corruptionism -the transnational movement coordinated by •' I would like to thank Elizabeth Onasch, Terrence Halliday, Michael Sauder, Amy Myrick, anonymous reviewers, and attendees of Theory Workshop at the University of Iowa Sociology Department for their insightful comments on the drafts of this paper.

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Section: Embeddedness: How Does Context Shape Corruption?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Anti-Corruptionism: Sociological Imagination and Comparative Study of Corruption

Zaloznaya

2013

Comp Sociol

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“…The country still suffers from a market‐unfriendly institutional base. Because of the inherited Soviet structure, Ukraine only slowly developed the institutions needed to reap the advantages of a market economy (Tiffin, 2006).…”

Section: Ethnicity and The Economy In Ukrainementioning

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The Russian–Ukrainian earnings divide¹

Constant¹,

Kahanec²,

Zimmermann³

2011

Economics of Transition

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Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behaviour. In this article, we investigate to what extent ethnicity affects Ukrainian labour market outcomes. Using microdata from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of earnings, we find a persistent and increasing labour market divide between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians throughout Ukraine's transition era. We establish that language, rather than nationality, is the key factor behind this ethnic premium favouring Russians. Our findings further document that this premium is larger amongst males than females.JEL classifications: J15, J70, J82.

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“…A. Tiffin stresses the importance of an effective institutional mechanism, noting that Ukraine has sufficient potential to be an economically developed country, since its labour force is relatively educated, the conditions for agriculture are among the most favourable in the world, and the infrastructure is also relatively developed (Tiffin 2006). Considering the ineffectiveness of the Ukrainian economy in contrast to other Central Eastern European countries, Tiffin mentions that institutions in Ukraine after the proclamation of independence have not been transformed and, instead of moving towards a more market-oriented system, the institutional mechanism in Ukraine became a "vacuum", and therefore this environment has been closed to innovation and production activities.…”

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Analysis of Institutions Interaction in Ukrainian Economy by Using Game Theory Models

Hurnyak

Kordonska

2019

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This article is an attempt to analyse the functioning of the institutional environment through the prism of institutional interaction and cooperation between actors in the shadow and official economy. The authors suggest somewhat unusual mechanisms for understanding the most problematic current issues of interinstitutional cooperation in Ukraine. The investigation is based on current game theory, in particular an approach to interactions in the context of such models as "loyal business -opposition business", "IMF -Ukraine", "Ukrainian society -oligarchic groups", which allow the sources, causes and consequences of the defacto functioning command system to be demonstrated. The research, which combined approaches to the innovative economy, the institutional economy and the theory of games is a good basis for explaining why a positive outcome, known as institutional cooperation, has not been achieved in the interaction between oligarchic groups and Ukrainian society as a result of a repetitive "game" for two decades. It is proposed to use Nash disequilibrium to disturb an ineffective economical system for receiving the effect similar to Josef Schumpeter's creative destruction approach in entrepreneur role identification. In this way a synergy between game theory and innovation economics was implemented.

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Ukraine: The Cost of Weak Institutions

Abstract: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.

Cited by 16 publications

References 25 publications

Beyond Anti-Corruptionism: Sociological Imagination and Comparative Study of Corruption

Beyond Anti-Corruptionism: Sociological Imagination and Comparative Study of Corruption

The Russian–Ukrainian earnings divide¹

Analysis of Institutions Interaction in Ukrainian Economy by Using Game Theory Models

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Ukraine: The Cost of Weak Institutions

Abstract: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.

Cited by 16 publications

References 25 publications

Beyond Anti-Corruptionism: Sociological Imagination and Comparative Study of Corruption

Beyond Anti-Corruptionism: Sociological Imagination and Comparative Study of Corruption

The Russian–Ukrainian earnings divide1

Analysis of Institutions Interaction in Ukrainian Economy by Using Game Theory Models

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