Yakovlev, Evgeny; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
What determines the enforcement of deregulation reform of business activities? What are the outcomes of deregulation …? We address these questions using an episode of a drastic reform in Russia between 2001 and 2004 which liberalized … average, the reform reduced the administrative costs of firms; but, the progress of reform had a substantial geographical …