Russia's tremendous inter-regional variation in the pace of industrial land rights reform has meant that geography has … exploiting both this difference in the pace with which land reform has been carried out across Russia's federal subjects and a …

Russia’s tremendous inter-regional variation in the pace of industrial land rights reform has meant that geography has … exploiting both this difference in the pace with which land reform has been carried out across Russia’s federal subjects and a …

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 …

enterprises. It then introduces unique data from a survey of 359 large industrial firms across several dozen of Russia's largest …

enterprises. It then introduces unique data from a survey of 359 large industrial firms across several dozen of Russia’s largest …

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 …

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. …

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) assumes a wide range of functions not raditional to a central bank.In addition to the … implementation of a deposit insurance scheme and is the main owner of Russia's largest commercial bank, Sberbank.As this additional …

Using a database from post-communist, pre-deposit-insurance Russia, we demonstrate the presence of quantity …