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Russians' "impressionable years": Life experience during the exit from communism and Putin-era beliefs
Pyle, William - 2020
This article links Russians' individual experiences during the late-Gorbachev and early-Yeltsin years to the beliefs those same individuals espoused in the Putin era, over a decade later. Drawing on questions, some of which are retrospective, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614239
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An abnormal country
Rosefielde, Steven - 2004
factually, and on the norms elaborated by Pareto, Arrow and Bergson that Russia is an abnormal political economy unlikely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148476
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Markets and democracy in Russia
Ivanenko, Vlad - 2005
.The author provides an estimate of Russia s institutional convergence to the standards of the G7 and the Big Five group of large …, middle-income countries that includes Brazil, China, and India.In some areas Russia outperforms "Big Five" countries, in … others it trails behind.Finally, public mistrust, corruption, and inefficient governance in Russia are discussed in light of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148499
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Are private banks more efficient than public banks? Evidence from Russia
Karas, Alexei; Schoors, Koen; Weill, Laurent - 2008
We study whether bank efficiency is related to bank ownership in Russia. We find that foreign banks are more efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148547
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Are private banks more efficient than public banks? Evidence from Russia
Karas, Alexei; Schoors, Koen; Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2008
We study whether bank efficiency is related to bank ownership in Russia. We find that foreign banks are more efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190668
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An abnormal country
Rosefielde, Steven - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2004
shows factually, and on the norms elaborated by Pareto, Arrow and Bergson that Russia is an abnormal political economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419588
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Markets and democracy in Russia
Ivanenko, Vlad - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2005
. The author provides an estimate of Russia’s institutional convergence to the standards of the G7 and the “Big Five” group … of large, middle-income countries that includes Brazil, China, and India. In some areas Russia outperforms "Big Five …" countries, in others it trails behind. Finally, public mistrust, corruption, and inefficient governance in Russia are discussed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419596
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Bank performance, efficiency and ownership in transition countries
Bonin, John P.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Wachtel, Paul - 2004
Using data from 1996 to 2000, we investigate the effects of ownership, especially by a strategic foreign owner, on bank efficiency for eleven transition countries in an unbalanced panel consisting of 225 banks and 856 observations.Applying stochastic frontier estimation procedures, we compute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148469
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Privatization matters: bank efficiency in transition countries
Bonin, John P.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Wachtel, Paul - 2004
To investigate the impact of bank privatization in transition countries, we take the largest banks in six relatively advanced countries, namely, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Romania.Income and balance sheet characteristics are compared across four bank ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148470
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Banking in transition countries
Bonin, John; Hasan, Iftekhar; Wachtel, Paul - 2008
Modern banking institutions were virtually non-existent in the planned economies of cen-tral Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the early transition period, banking sectors began to develop during several years of macroeconomic decline and turbulence accompa-nied by repeated bank crises....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148556