preparation/submission costs, and that 60% of within-product purchase-price variation across 16 million purchases in Russia in …

sector ownership has no independent impact on productivity growth. The finding that ownership per se does not matter, but …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

percent increase in operating efficiency, achieved primarily by reducing the frequency and duration of reactor outages. At … average wholesale prices the value of this increased efficiency is approximately $2.5 billion annually and implies an annual …

-level productivity. We also examine whether M&As increase efficiency through reallocation of production to more efficient plants or …Study of the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on productivity and market power has been complicated by the … difficulty of separating these two effects. We use newly-developed techniques to separately estimate productivity and markups …

This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy … through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928 …-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a two-sector growth model to compute sectoral TFPs as well as distortions and …

) by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the … it induced in the social structure, in particular the size of the middle class, across different regions of Russia …

(namely, from Cyprus and British Virgin Islands) across Russia and compare them with the benchmark group of genuine foreign … investors in Russia. We further study the determinants of the fraction of round-trip investment in total foreign investment in … large fraction of round-trip investment in Russia is concentrated in real estate and financial sectors, our results point to …