Political connections and the super-rich in Poland

We study the impact of political connections richest Poles on their wealth level, mobility among rich, and risk dropping off rich list. use newly collected original panel data (2002–2018) we find that none variables capturing Polish multimillionaires is consistently related neither to size largest fortunes in Poland nor chances upward While are a lower probability moving down list, also obtain they increase falling Our results show that, contrary some other post-socialist countries such as Russia or Ukraine, there little evidence economy suffers from crony capitalism.