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The Impact of Omnivorism on Consumer Choice : The Case of the Book Market
Demina, Ekaterina - 2017
This research analyzes the impact of the degree of omnivorousness on consumer choice in the book market. Panel Scanner data for 2012-2015 were provided by a Saint Petersburg chain store. The final sample was restricted to 10,789 purchase occasions made by 3,709 loyal clients in 2015. We assessed...
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Corruption Perceptions in Russia : Economic or Social Issue?
Rassadovskaia, Anastasiia - 2014
research reveals that distrust matters a lot for the problem in Russia and suggests further examination of the dynamics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055625
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The Political Economy of Russian Gubernatorial Election and Appointment
Buckley, Noah; Frye, Timothy; Garifullina, Guzel; … - 2014
Political and economic outcomes depend, in part, on the quality of the officials making policy. Many scholars argue that the free and fair elections are the best method for selecting competent officials. Others, however, argue that elections can lead to the selection of amateurs, demagogues, and...
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Education in Early Modern Russia : Beyond the 'Petrine Revolution'
Fedjukin, Igorʹ Igorevič - 2020
Education in early modern Russia has been traditionally described as imported from the West; secular; imposed by the … of education in that period. The last two sections seek to place the early modern education in Russia in the Western … innovative reconfiguring of educational forms; and to discuss the role of early modern Russia as a pioneer, in some sense, of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842851
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Housing Rent Dynamics and Rent Regulation in St. Petersburg (1880-1917)
Kholodilin, Konstantin - 2019
This article studies the evolution of housing rents in St. Petersburg between 1880 and 1917, covering an eventful period of Russian and world history. We collect and digitize over 5,000 rental advertisements from a local newspaper, which we use together with geo-coded addresses and detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892821
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The Imperial Society for Promotion of the Russian Trade Shipping and the Oil Issue in the Russian Empire in the Last Quarter of the 19th Century
Kulikova, Maria - 2017
Studies of interconnections between social, technological, economic and cultural forces belong to the trend of modernisation studies in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century. Modernisation implies the establishment and growth of institutions and infrastructures that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942006
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‘Luxury’ As the Pedagogical Project of the Russian Emperors and Empresses : The History of the Concept in the 18th Century
Korchmina, Elena - 2019
of luxury. Secondly, starting from Petrine time Russia got more acquainted with the European political economy … economy or of cultural practice…” (Reinert). Thus, European thinkers coordinated their positions even if they disagreed with … each other. But, how had the notion of luxury been conceptualizing outside of the European Roman world? Russia is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866141
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The Circulation of Information About the Poll Tax Revenues As an Indicator of Russian Empire Undergoverness in the in the 18th Century
Korchmina, Elena - 2016
The article deals with the notion "undergoverness" in the context of the 18th century Russia. It was an attempt to get …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978206
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Hunting Activities of Russian Pomors on Spitsbergen in the 18th Century : New Evidences in Transnational Perspective
Dadykina, Margarita - 2015
The Russian hunters used to kill animals in the Arctic long before the 18th c. However, the Petrine modernization has changed their life strongly. The Government has put the new goals in order to make the Russian blubber industry some kind of a driving force for the Europeanization of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009744
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The Monastic Account Books and Price History of Seventeenth-Century Russia
Mustafin, Arthur - 2019
This article uses the records of monastic account books to assess the level of prices in Russia in the second half of … financial reforms. The available data shows the prices did not change synchronically in Russia and Europe. Our assumption …, therefore, is that Russia stood apart from the price revolution of Western Europe in the seventeenth century …
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