manufacturing industry in Russia. A settlement is counted as part of an urban agglomeration in two cases: that of a large, central …

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 …

Nonprofit accountability in Russia is becoming increasingly important as nonprofit organizations become more open …

Market discipline is usually studied in the retail or the corporate deposit markets, while the interbank loan market is … disregarded. Banks' abilities to exert market discipline are taken for granted, as they are expected to have the expertise to … assess correctly the riskiness of other banks. However, the “crises of trust” (as one in 2004 in Russia) create some doubts …

. We explore this relationship in a setting in which financial market frictions are apt to be less severe – i.e., among …

of the independent variables in our models, paying attention to the structure of the banking market as well as to the …

This research focuses on estimating the signalling role of education on the Russian labour market. Two well … labour market via their educational attainments. Comparison of the returns to education of employees vs. self … human capital differ significantly in Russia. Nevertheless we can say that, for the majority of men, the return to …

data from Russia. The main strength of the paper is the use, for identification purposes, of the large variation in labor … market outcomes as well as in the minimum wage across the 89 regions (states) over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. The study … relies on the standard methodology introduced by Neumark and Wascher, in which various labor market outcomes at the regional …

-country level. The analysis is based on the results from a national survey carried out in Russia in 2011. The findings contribute to …