Slinko, Irina; Yakovlev, Evgeny; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study - 2004
How does regulatory capture affect growth? We construct measures of the political power of firms and regional regulatory capture using micro-level data on the preferential treatment of firms through regional laws and regulations in Russia during the period 1992-2000. Using these measures, we...