Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5092316 | Journal of Comparative Economics | 2014 | 18 Pages |
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.
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Authors
Olga Kuzmina, Natalya Volchkova, Tatiana Zueva,