Revenues from the oil and gas industry continue to make up the largest proportion of state budget revenues. Public-legal payments with a non-tax character enacted by the Law of the Russian Federation on Subsoil (“Subsoil Law”) have an important role in the diversification of payments for the...

We estimate a model of household use of alternative payment instruments (cash and bank cards) using a new dataset from a survey of Russian households. In our model, household preferences are determined by the perceived attributes of these instruments, and hence their choice regarding payment...