(FDI) across regions in Russia; in particular, this paper is concerned with those regions that are endowed with natural … that one theory alone is not able to explain the geographical pattern of foreign investments in Russia. A combination of …

across subnational regions in Russia. We apply the literature on heterogeneous firms and the institution-based view of … investor behavior, which predict that higher institutional costs raise the size and productivity cut-off of start …-up subsidiaries. Our empirical results based on microestablishment data of foreign-owned firms in Russia show that a weaker judicial …

investments, we then document the swift expansion of production facilities in Russia by major global manufacturers in the 2000s …

policies in Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of MNCs during the anticipated period of economic recession in Russia …