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Who Demands Collective Action in an Imperfect Institutional Environment? A Case-Study of the Professional Community of Attorneys in Russia
Kazun, Anton - 2014
We analyse the professional community of attorneys in Russia in order to understand their potential for collective … action in an imperfect institutional environment. In 2013 we conducted a survey of 372 attorneys in 9 regions of Russia. Two … core could be an instrument for an estimation of the quality of law enforcement in Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044935
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Internal Empires I : Social Institutions of the Frontier
Foa, Roberto - 2012
zones in four countries: Brazil, Russia, Canada and the United States. Taking a wide range of survey items, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105701
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Total Factor Productivity and the Institutional Possibility Frontier : An Outline of a Link between Two Theoretical Perspectives on Institutions, Culture and Long Run Growth
Lokshin, Ilya - 2016
The paper proposes an outline for the link between two theoretical perspectives on the prerequisites of high institutional quality and long run growth. One framework is based on the tradeoff between disorder and dictatorship and introduces the notion of the institutional possibility frontier,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002795
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Institutional Framework, Corporate Ownership Structure, and R&D Investment : An International Analysis
López-Iturriaga, Félix J. - 2015
We combine agency theory with the law and finance approach to analyze how the legal protection of investors and the corporate ownership structure affect the corporate investment in research and development (R&D). We use information from 1,091 firms from the five most R&D intensive industries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023899
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Institutional Deficit and Health Outcomes in Post-Communist States
Kozlov, Vladimir - 2015
In this paper we explore political-economic determinants of health. We draw upon the unique natural experiment of post-communist transitions to show the effect on health (measured as life expectancy and cause-specific mortality) of the interaction between institutions for political (democratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027073
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Endogenous Property Rights, Conflict Intensity and Inequality in Asymmetric Rent-Seeking Contest
Yarkin, Alexander - 2014
Does less inequality in wealth distribution imply better property rights protection? In this paper we show that this impact is non monotonous and is conditional on a) equilibrium type: conflict (rent-seeking) or peace, b) the reasons of changes in wealth distribution, and c) the size of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043892
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Institutional Factors of Government Efficiency : Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gasparyan, Olga - 2015
Government efficiency is one of many fuzzy terms in contemporary political science. Due to its multidimensionality, it is not well-defined and, therefore, hard to identify. The idea of the current research is to create an index of government efficiency using data envelopment analysis. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029395
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Explaining the Productivity Advantages of Manufacturing Firms in Russian Urban Agglomerations
Ksenia, Gonchar - 2012
manufacturing industry in Russia. A settlement is counted as part of an urban agglomeration in two cases: that of a large, central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096182
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Executing the Decisons of Foreign Courts and the Question of Sovereignty in Russia
Antonov, Mikhail - 2012
The author examines the theoretical difficulties of implementing decisions and awards of foreign courts in Russia … educational background of legal professionals – especially judges – in Russia. It is suggested that the statist conception of law … of law developing in the mentality of legal professionals in Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096271
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Challenges and New Trends for Nonprofit Accountability in Russia
Jakobson, Lev - 2012
Nonprofit accountability in Russia is becoming increasingly important as nonprofit organizations become more open …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096520