This paper investigates the informal labour market in Russia in late 1995 and estimates a labour supply function in the …

-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 …

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 …

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 …

Three hypotheses about the nature of federal tax arrears in Russia in the second half of the 1990s are tested …

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

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …