made a comeback as owner of the dominant market participants.We also look at the new institutions imported into Russia to ….The unfortunate combination of this new institutional overlay and traditional local norms of behavior have brought Russia to an …

Russia to regulate banking and finance, including rule of law, competition, deposit insurance, bankruptcy, and corporate … Russia to an impasse – the banking sector’s ownership structure hinders further advancement of market institutions. Indeed …

The paper reviews the recent conduct of monetary policy and the central bank’s rule-based behavior in Russia. Using … different policy rules, we test whether the central bank in Russia reacts to changes in inflation, output gap and the exchange … rate in a consistent and predictable manner. Our results indicate that during the period of 1993-2002 the Bank of Russia …

finding that all types of banks in Russia increase their lending before presidential elections supports the view that the … authorities in an electoral autocracy like Russia can influence lending of both private and state-owned banks for political …

The microeconomic drivers of medium- and short-term income mobility in Russia over the period 1996-2016 are …-poor patterns of growth may accompany Russia's notoriously high levels of inequality. Controlling for other personal and household …

This paper studies the distribution of politically motivated intergovernmental transfers in Russia focusing on the case … findings are in line with the argument that the regional governments in Russia play an important role in the distribution of …

resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings …

Russia has witnessed a high number of bank failures over the last two decades. Using monthly data for 2002 … provide mixed evidence that political cycles matter for the occurrence of bank failures in Russia. …