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federal centre. The theory is supported by the recent experience of Russia, China, and Argentina. …
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We consider one polluting industry in an open economy. The national government implements a policy of industrial pollution control by inducing appropriate technological innovations to reduce toxic emissions. The emission-reducing innovations are developed through firm-specific costly...
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Anti-trust problems affecting markets for intermediate goods or services raise the input costs of firms operating in downstream sectors, which often face tough international competition. Such firms lose market share, thus worsening the economic performance of the country. We try to document the...
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This paper investigates the informal labour market in Russia in late 1995 and estimates a labour supply function in the …
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-old democracy – Russia. We find strong evidence of very short opportunistic political cycles and provide evidence and explanation … why many previous attempts to find evidence failed. Using a comprehensive list of Russia's regional elections and regional …
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The paper examines the behaviour of 100 firms interviewed regularly between 1993-4. It reaches the following conclusions:1) Following the inter-enterprise debt (IED) crisis of 1992, most firms have switched to a `pay-in-advance' system, which pushed firms towards a `hard budget constraint'...
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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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This Paper uses 1985-99 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...
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Both Russia and the EU are undertaking significant changes in foreign trade relations. Russia seeks WTO accession and … relationship can EU and Russia develop? The Paper analyses the asymmetric trade structure, the unstable and confused trade relation …, as well as both form and content of EU’s and Russia’s options for the future. Conclusions are e.g. that (i) present EU …
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and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … from 1995-97 to 1998-2000. The distance to the frontier is, however, orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in the … Republic, however, this ‘negative spillover’ effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause domestic …
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