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Political Economy of Tariff Protection in Russia: an Empirical Study

Serguey, Afontsev - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2000

Import liberalization forms part and parcel of trade reforms in transition economies. There are, however, significant … tariff policy during the transition period? This empirical study shows that the most adequate explanation of the tariff …

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Incentives to Provide Local Public Goods: Fiscal Federalism, Russian Style

Ekatherina, Zhuravskaya - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2000

Based on unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods. Any change in local government’s own revenues is almost entirely offset by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005519010

Inter-regional Variability of Inflation Rates

Konstantin, Glushchenko - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2001

Theoretical considerations suggest that as market institutions are developing in Russian regions, the divergence of regional consumer price levels, which has been caused by the price liberalization of 1992, should give way to price level convergence. Using price dynamics data (overall consumer...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005519020

Transition to Postindustrial Society? A Study of the Service Sector Employment in Russia

Anna, Lukiyanova - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2003

The transition to market economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union … Baumol-Fuchs model of the service sector expansion to estimate underdevelopment of services in Russia prior the transition …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005519022

The human capital heterogeneity at the Russian labor market

Gleb, Borisov - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2005

-random distribution of unobservable skills across the population of a transition country. At the beginning of the transition, people who …. This results in the differences in unobservable abilities and earnings capacity of people. We argue that cohort, a pre-transition … occupation, an urban place of birth, and nationality might serve as proxies for unobservable skills in the transition. The cohort …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005519042

Real appreciation and output: Russia 1993—1997

Oksana, Dynnikova - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2000

The paper shows that, in 1993-1997, larger month-to-month real appreciation in Russia was associated with larger month-to-month increase in the aggregate supply, supposedly because of a decrease in the prices of imported production inputs. At the same time, according to our estimations,...

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Modeling Labor Market Behavior of the Population of a Large Industrial City: Duration of Registered Unemployment

Evgeny, Nivorozhkin; Ludmila, Nivorozhkina; Andrey, Shukhmin - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2002

' transition from unemployment to alternative states. The results will help evaluate the process of the population's adaptation to …

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Wage-Setting and Employment Behavior of Enterprises during the Period of Economic Transition

Ruvim, Shakhnovich; Galina, Yudashkina - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2001

period of transition. Using panel data on large-sized and medium-sized enterprises in the Novosibirsk region (1993–1998), we … was influenced by the dominant group of owners during the first period of transition (1994–1996). According to our …

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Risk Attitudes and Choice under Uncertainty: Experimental Evidence from Russia

Alexis, Belianin - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 1998

This paper presents the results of one of the first experimental studies of individual choice in transitional Russia. The study is based on two standard types of experimental design: on risk attitudes via individual preferences over two-outcome lotteries, and on public good provision under...

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Fiscal Decentralization and Soft Budget Constraints

Andrey, Timofeev - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2002

Liberalization policies of transition have led to the mass reduction of enterprise subsidization which prevailed in …

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