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Federal Tax Arrears in Russia: Liquidity Problems, Federal Redistribution or Russian Resistance?

Ponomareva, Maria; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Three hypotheses about the nature of federal tax arrears in Russia in the second half of the 1990s are tested empirically. Tax arrears can be a result of: 1) liquidity problems in firms, 2) redistribute subsidies of the federal government, or 3) regional political resistance to federal tax...

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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...

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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...

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Optimal Speed of Transition 10 Years After

Boeri, Tito - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The adjustment of labour markets during transition has been quite different from that anticipated by the Optimal Speed … of Transition (OST) literature. In particular, it has involved stagnant unemployment pools, large flows to inactivity and … the alternative between a big-bang strategy and a gradual transition process. This amounts to assuming that governments …

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Regional Aspects of Unemployment in Europe and in Italy

Schioppa, Padoa; Kostoris, Fiorella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Unemployment in Europe is a worrying phenomenon not so much because it hits 18 million people, but because it almost exclusively affects particular population segments. Italy represents a textbook case of a European country where labour market imbalances only weigh upon certain social...

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The Transition in Russia: Successes (Privatization, Low Unemployment...) and Failures (Mafias, Liquidity Constraints...). A Theoretical Analysis

Cohen, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The paper analyses the transition in Russia through a theoretical model in which job-to-job mobility plays a crucial …

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The Role of Government Aid to Firms during the Transition to a Market Economy: Russia 1992-94

Melitz, Jacques; Waysand, Claire - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper develops two economic grounds for gradualism in the context of the Russian move towards a market economy: one for the support of output through subsidies, another for similar support through credit. The first argument relates to the usual case for softening the blow to a sector hit by...

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What do Russians think about transition?

Denisova, Irina; Eller, Markus; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Russian population about the transition process and the role of the state compared to that of free markets. We find that about … one half of Russian population is disappointed with transition and a large majority is in favor of high state regulation …

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The Economics of Enterprise Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe

Aghion, Philippe; Blanchard, Olivier J; Carlin, Wendy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

process of transition of the state-owned enterprise sector. A set of theoretical tools is assembled which permits the analysis …

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Are Russian Commercial Courts Biased? Evidence from a Natural Bankruptcy Experiment

Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane; Sonin, Konstantin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the nature of judicial bias in bankruptcy proceedings following the enactment of bankruptcy law in Russia in 1998. We find that regional political characteristics affected judicial decisions about the numbers and types of bankruptcy procedures initiated after the law took effect. In...

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